Diane McWhorter
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Diane McWhorter | |
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Born | 1 November 1952 |
Occupation | Journalist |
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Rebecca Diane McWhorter is an American journalist, commentator, and author who has written extensively about race and the history of
Early life and education
McWhorter is from
Among McWhorter's elementary school classmates was Mary Badham, who portrayed "Scout" Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. When the film was released, McWhorter was among the students who went to a viewing of the film as part of a school field trip.[1] She later reflected on that experience:
"By, you know, rooting for a black man, you were kind of betraying every principle that you had been raised to believe, and I remember thinking "what would my father think if he saw me fighting back these tears when Tom Robinson gets shot?" It was a really disturbing experience; to be crying for a black man was so taboo."
McWhorter graduated from Wellesley College in 1974.[2]
Career
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Booknotes interview with McWhorter on Carry Me Home, May 27, 2001, C-SPAN |
McWhorter has written extensively on race and the struggle for civil rights in the US. In 2002 she was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.
She has been a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the
Personal life
She married Richard Dean Rosen in 1987; they have two children.[10][11]
References
- ^ "New details about Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, expored in new documentary". Public Radio International. June 5, 2011. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
- ^ a b "Wellesley Alumna Wins Pulitzer Prize". Wellesley Wire. Wellesley College. 2002-04-10.
- The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
- ^ "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project". Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
- ^ Noble, Don (2005-07-10). "'Dream' offers a clear account of the civil rights movement". The Tuscaloosa News. p. 4E.
- ^ Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
- ^ a b Long, Alan (2012-09-28). "Back to Birmingham: Du Bois Fellow McWhorter plans update on her Civil Rights classic". Harvard Gazette. Harvard University.
- ^ a b Charles, Ron (2015-07-28). "Uncle Sam wants YOU to read 'popular' scholarly books". The Washington Post.
- ^ Theil, Stefan (2015-01-09). "How A Nazi Rocket Scientist Fought For Civil Rights". NPR Berlin.
- ^ "Diane McWhorter Is Married to Richard Rosen". The New York Times. 1987-05-03.
- New York magazine. pp. 32–38.
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- "The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories". American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.