Aired on NPR's All Things Considered Tuesday, March 3, 2009.
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Birmingham, AL was once known as the "Pittsburgh of the South" because of the iron and steel industry that built this city after the Civil War. Sloss Furnaces, one of its largest steel furnaces, was saved from destruction in the 1970s and is now a National Historical Landmark, where the public can see metal-arts programs in action, attend concerts and movies, and learn about the industrial, race and labor history of their city.
