Born:Birmingham, Alabama,
United States Of America
Current Home:
New York, New York,
Diane McWhorter
Biography
Diane McWhorter won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for her book, Carry Me Home, a personal documentary of the cataclysmic events that took place in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Considered one of the most important books on the civil rights movement, its awards and accolades include one of Time Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year, a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, and winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award.
McWhorter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and was educated at Wellesley College. She is a long-time contributor to The New York Times and writes for the Op-Ed page of USA Today. Her articles about race, politics, and culture have also appeared in Harpers, The Nation, The New Republic, Newsday, People, Talk, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other publications.
With the publication of A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954-1968, McWhorter brings her award-winning treatment of this subject matter to a younger audience. Set against the backdrop of her personal experience, this powerful but intimate book explores the sacrifices and triumphs of African Americans in their pursuit of social and political equality.
McWhorter lives with her family in New York City.
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A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement, from 1954 to 1968
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A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement, from 1954 to 1968
by Diane McWhorterDiane McWhorter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s and 60s. Set against the back drop of her personal story, this powerful but intimate book explores the sacrifices and triumphs of African Americans in their pursuit of social and political equality and takes a hard, painful look at the often violent resistance they met from white Americans. It profiles the remarkable people and the rise of important organizations in the movement. It analyzes the impact of classic civil rights landm
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24-7 Forensics: Shot and Framed
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24-7 Forensics: Shot and Framed
by Diane WebberPolice try not to disturb a crime scene. But eventually, everything gets cleaned up. Bodies get taken to the morgue. Evidence goes to the police station. The yellow police tape comes down. So how do detectives remember what was where? That's a job for a forensic photographer.
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Want to know more? Get the picture in a flash and read about: what forensic photographers see and do at crime scenes; what the crime scene photos have to say about a 50-year-old murder; how video evidence helped an innocent man get out of jail-after six years; and whether you might want to point and shoot toward a career in forensic photography!
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