Birmingham, Alabama didn’t grow slowly like most American cities — it was planned on paper in 1871, built on top of one of the only places on Earth where iron ore, coal, and limestone all sat within reach of each other. What followed was a boom so fast it earned the nickname Magic City, a fifty-six foot iron god built to prove it to the world, and decades later, a single Sunday morning that changed the course of American history. This is the full, layered story of how one Alabama valley became both an industrial marvel and one of the defining battlegrounds of the civil rights movement.
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