Diane McWhorter's Books
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Carry Me HomeThe Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement brought down the institutions of segregation.Read More
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Cleburne News, March 28, 2013
...on around us. What did we know – did we keep our eyes open or deliberately close them? Diane McWhorter, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Carry Me Home,” about her native Birmingham during the civil rights crisis, came to give the annual...
Care2, January 20, 2013
...150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. 50 years ago, Democratic Governor George Wallace of Alabama stated in his 1963 inaugural speech that there would be segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever! Monday,...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 9, 2012
...research but had neither the strength nor focus to continue. He auditioned other authors -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter ("Carry Me Home") was briefly considered but discarded after Manchester decided she wasn't sufficiently worshipful...
Anniston Star, September 9, 2012
...craft of writing. Other recognizable names include Forrest Gump creator Winston Groom, George Wallace Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter of Birmingham and legendary newspaper man Howell Raines. But perhaps the most satisfying experience...
AL.com, May 8, 2013
...Civil Rights movement that you may like to check out. This would be the perfect time to read Diane McWhorter's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the civil rights battle in Birmingham, "Carry Me Home" or Taylor Branch's highly readable volume "Parting...
Detroit News, May 2, 2013
...for the civil rights movement, historians said. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the demonstrations, "Carry Me Home," Diane McWhorter called the pictures "era-defining" and comparable to the photo showing Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. ...
Detroit News, May 2, 2013
...for the civil rights movement, historians said. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the demonstrations, "Carry Me Home," Diane McWhorter called the pictures "era-defining" and comparable to the photo showing Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. ...
New York Times, January 21, 2013
...holiday. Do we really want to be a country that argues about whether torture works? So did segregation. Diane McWhorter is the author of “Carry Me Home...
New York Times, January 20, 2013
...holiday. Do we really want to be a country that argues about whether torture works? So did segregation. Diane McWhorter is the author of “Carry Me Home...
New York Times, January 20, 2013
...holiday. Do we really want to be a country that argues about whether torture works? So did segregation. Diane McWhorter is the author of “Carry Me Home...
New York Times, January 20, 2013
...holiday. Do we really want to be a country that argues about whether torture works? So did segregation. Diane McWhorter is the author of “Carry Me Home...
