Perspective: Cities Share a Name and a Sad Heritage ; Birmingham has United This Week in Condemning the Worst Unrest in the City for Two Decades but As Roz Golds Discovers in Our Namesake City, There Are No Quick Fixes to Racial Disharmony

Birmingham Post › October 28, 2005

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Two thousand miles across the Atlantic lies a city called Birmingham, it is the largest city in its state and it is embedded in the heart of it.

A 19th Century city, Birmingham, Alabama took its name from ours, when it was still known as 'the workshop of the world' for its mighty iron and steel industry.

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Perspective: Cities Share a Name and a Sad Heritage ; Birmingham has United This Week in Condemning the Worst Unrest in the City for Two Decades but As Roz Golds Discovers in Our Namesake City, There Are No Quick Fixes to Racial Disharmony

Last week, Condoleezza Rice, the first black woman to become US Secretary of State, visited that city, her birth town, which is now characterised by glittering high-tech industries, to attend a service for...

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