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The Smell of War
Center Street in Birmingham, Alabama was nicknamed Dynamite Hill because it was bombed more than 50 times between 1947 and 1957. The street’s homes were targeted by white supremacists because of the rise of Black homeownership. Birmingham natives recall the wave of terror.
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