Background
McWhorter, Diane was born on November 1, 1952 in Tupelo, Mississippi, United States.
( A stirring history of the Civil Rights movement in Amer...)
A stirring history of the Civil Rights movement in America by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of CARRY ME HOME. In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown versus the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated). Beginning with an overview of the movement since the end of the Civil War, McWhorter also discusses such events as the 1956 MTGS bus boycott, the 1961 Freedom Rides, and the 1963 demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama, among others. The author uses interviews she conducted personally with
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McWhorter, Diane was born on November 1, 1952 in Tupelo, Mississippi, United States.
McWhorter is from Birmingham, Alabama, where she attended the Brooke Hill School. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1974.
McWhorter has written extensively on race and the struggle for civil rights in the United States. In 2002 she was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Carry Maine 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 United States of America Today and for Slate, Harper"s, Smithsonian, among other publications.
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 West. East. 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 working on Moon over Alabama, a study of Wernher von Braun and the United States space program in Alabama.
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She is a member of the Board of Contributors for United States of America Today’s Forum Page, part of the newspaper’s Opinion section, and has been managing editor of Boston magazine. She is a member of the Society of American Historians.