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...
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...
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,...
One News Page, January 9, 2013
...McGraw-Hill, of Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki as one of the great busted plays in American publishing. According to Diane McWhorter’s Carry Me Home: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, Shapiro phoned the offices of King’s...
AARP Bulletin Today, January 8, 2013
...According to civil rights movement historian Diane McWhorter, Shapiro actually came up with idea for a jail letter nine months before King wrote it. In July 1962, while King was imprisoned in Albany, Ga., Shapiro telephoned the...
