Carry Me Home, Diane McWhorter
Carry Me Home, Diane McWhorter
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Carry Me Home
Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Author: Diane McWhorter

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 28 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/23/2021

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era's climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation.

"The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. 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.

About Diane McWhorter

Diane McWhorter is an 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. She is a long-time contributor to the New York Times and the op-ed page of USA Today, among other national publications. She is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, and now lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Teri

Carry Me Home is a thorough account of the history of the fight for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. McWhorter gives detailed background on the politics behind segregationist groups, Dixiecrats, and the Freedom Movement. Also covered are the Freedom Rides, local marches led by Martin Luther King......more

Goodreads review by Carina

FINALLY. Wow, this book took me forever to read. It's so huge and densely packed with information that I really don't know how to rate it. There were parts I liked a lot and other parts where I just felt overwhelmed by all the names flying at me. I would certainly need to read it more than once to h......more

Goodreads review by Steve

The full story of Birmingham I did not know that this book had won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2001 when I started reading it. It richly deserves the prize. Written by a "baby boomer" who as a pre-adolescent during the crucial years of the 60's, lived in Birmingham as a privileged member of......more

Goodreads review by Brian Bess

The Autobiography of Bombingham Journalist Diane McWhorter is a Birmingham native who was ten at the time that the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing killed four young girls and had her eleventh birthday just a few weeks before the assassination of JFK. She was born into one of the old affluent......more

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