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Books Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Children Isabel McWhorter, Lucy McWhorter Awards Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Similar People Fred Shuttlesworth, Bull Connor, Taylor Branch, Gilbert King | ||
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Rebecca Diane McWhorter is an American journalist, commentator and author who has written extensively about race and the history of civil rights. She won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize in 2002 for Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 2001; reprinted with a new afterword, 2013).
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- Women to women diane mcwhorter a dream of freedom the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968
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- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
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Early life and education
McWhorter is from Birmingham, Alabama, where she attended the Brooke Hill School. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1974.
Career
McWhorter has written extensively on race and the struggle for civil rights in the US. In 2002 she was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. She is also the author of A Dream of Freedom, a young adult history of the civil rights movement (Scholastic, 2004). She is a long-time contributor to The New York Times and has written for the op-ed page of USA Today and for Slate, Harper's, Smithsonian, among other publications. She is a member of the Board of Contributors for USA Today’s Forum Page, part of the newspaper’s Opinion section, and has been managing editor of Boston magazine.
She has been a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, a Guggenheim Fellow, a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. In 2015 she was one of the recipients in the first year of the National Endowment for the Humanities' Public Scholar program to underwrite the production of general-readership non-fiction books by scholars. She is a member of the Society of American Historians. She is working on Moon over Alabama, a study of Wernher von Braun and the US space program in Alabama.
Personal life
She married Richard Dean Rosen in 1987; they have two children.
