Diane McWhorter

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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. Her book, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 2001), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize in 2002.¹² 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, Slate, and many other publications. McWhorter is a member of the Board of Contributors for USA TODAY's Forum Page, part of the newspaper’s Opinion section. She is originally from Birmingham, Alabama and now lives in New York City with her two children Isabel and Lucy.

She graduated from Wellesley College in 1974,³ after attending The Brooke Hill School in Birmingham.

Diane McWhorter is a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2007.

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^ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction" (web). pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2008-03-14.
^ "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project winners". Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
^ "Wellesley Wire April 2002: Wellesley Alumna Wins Pulitzer Prize". Wellesley College. Retrieved 18 March 2011.

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Booknotes interview with McWhorter on Carry Me Home, May 27, 2001.

v t e African-American Civil Rights Movement

Topics and events (timeline)	1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Albany Movement Birmingham Movement Browder v. Gayle Brown v. Board of Education Boynton v. Virginia Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church Chicago Open Housing Movement Civil Rights Act of 1964 Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Emmett Till Fair Housing Act of 1968 Freedom Rides Freedom Summer Garner v. Louisiana Greensboro sit-ins Greyhound Bus Station (Montgomery, Alabama) Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections Hocutt v. Wilson Dr. King's assassination Little Rock Nine Loving v. Virginia March on Washington Mississippi civil rights workers murders Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Montgomery Bus Boycott Nashville sit-ins Poor People's Campaign Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom St. Augustine Movement Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company Selma Voting Rights Movement Twenty-fourth Amendment Voting Rights Act of 1965

Activists	Ralph Abernathy Victoria Gray Adams William G. Anderson Ella Baker Daisy Bates Harry Belafonte James Bevel Claude Black Unita Blackwell Julian Bond Joseph E. Boone William Holmes Borders Aurelia Browder Guy Carawan Stokely Carmichael J.L. Chestnut Shirley Chisholm Ramsey Clark Septima Clark Xernona Clayton Dorothy Cotton Claudette Colvin Vernon Dahmer Annie Devine Patricia Stephens Due Medgar Evers Chuck Fager James Farmer James Forman Marie Foster Dick Gregory Lawrence Guyot Prathia Hall Fannie Lou Hamer Dorothy Height Lola Hendricks Aaron Henry Myles Horton T. R. M. Howard Jesse Jackson Jimmie Lee Jackson T. J. Jemison Vernon Johns Frank Johnson Clarence Jones Matthew Jones Clyde Kennard A. D. King Coretta Scott King Martin Luther King, Jr. Bernard Lafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Stanley Levison John Lewis Viola Liuzzo Z. Alexander Looby Joseph Lowery Clara Luper Malcolm X Thurgood Marshall Ralph McGill James Meredith Amzie Moore William Moore Irene Morgan Bob Moses Bill Moyer Diane Nash E. D. Nixon James Orange James Peck Rosa Parks Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Al Raby A. Philip Randolph Cordell Reagon Amelia Boynton Robinson Jo Ann Robinson Bayard Rustin Charles Sherrod Fred Shuttlesworth Modjeska Monteith Simkins Kelly Miller Smith Mary Louise Smith Charles Kenzie Steele Dorothy Tillman C. T. Vivian Wyatt Tee Walker Roy Wilkins Hosea Williams John Minor Wisdom Andrew Young Whitney Young James Zwerg

Activist groups	Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Highlander Folk School Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Montgomery Improvement Association National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) NAACP Youth Council Northern Student Movement National Council of Negro Women National Urban League Operation Breadbasket Regional Council of Negro Leadership Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Women's Political Council

Noted Historians	Taylor Branch Clayborne Carson Michael Eric Dyson Chuck Fager Adam Fairclough David Garrow David Halberstam Diane McWhorter

v t e Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (2001–2025)

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (2001) Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (2002) "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (2003) Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2004) Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (2005) Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins (2006) The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2007) The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (2008) Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (2009) The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman (2010) The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011) The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (2012) Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King (2013)

Complete list (1962–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

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