Carry Me Home won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize, among other awards, and A Dream of Freedom was on several “best books” lists. She is a member of the Society of American Historians and has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. Her articles have appeared in the American Scholar, Boston magazine (where she was managing editor), Harper’s Magazine, Legal Affairs, the Nation, Slate, and Smithsonian magazine. Carry me home : Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. The 704 page book was published by Simon and Schuster in 2001 with an ISBN 10 of 0743226488.

McWhorter, a graduate of Wellesley College, was a longtime contributor to the New York Times and is on the USA Today board of contributors. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with Black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America's second emancipation. Carry Me Home was written by and Diane McWhorter. They achieved this in a segregated southern backwater where Hitler’s master race theories had found vivid expression in the United States. The book she will work on at the Institute follows Wernher von Braun and the engineers of Hitler’s unprecedented V-2 ballistic missile from the Third Reich to post–World War II Alabama, where they built the rocket that put the first man on the moon. She is also the author of A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968 (Scholastic, 2004), a young adult book.

Her first book, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 2001), chronicled the civil rights revolution-and her family’s role on the wrong side of it-in her hometown. This information is accurate as of the fellowship year indicated for each fellow.ĭiane McWhorter is a writer of narrative nonfiction based in New York City. Lisa interviews author Diane McWhorter about her new book Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama the Climactic Battle of the Civil rights Movement.

Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter