“All those marches,” McWhorter writes, “just for the right to eat a hot dog at a lunch counter. The story of Birmingham is the story of Klansmen, sanctioned police brutality and racism so ingrained in Southern culture that even Martin Luther King Jr. (The only direct repercussion she experienced from the bombing was that her school’s Music Manrehearsals were canceled.) In a way, this book serves as her attempt at redemption. McWhorter was too young and too sheltered to understand what was happening at the time. 15, 1963, McWhorter was a white girl living in Birmingham, almost the same age as four black girls killed by a bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church. Carry Me Home is also the story of the authors family, which was on the wrong side of the civil rights revolution. Birmingham, once known as the Magic City, finds itself saddled with a much worse nickname in 1963.
Carry me home Birmingham, Alabama : the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution by Diane McWhorter. Diane McWhorter paints a stark portrait of a city in crisis. But more important, it will exhaust you emotionally. Carry me home by Diane McWhorter, 2001, Simon & Schuster edition, in English. She is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, and now lives in New York City. Her young adult history of the civil rights movement is A Dream of Freedom.
Called gripping, brutal, and indispensable, CARRY ME HOME is a must-read. Yes, it is a dense 700-page read about the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Ala. Diane McWhorter is a long-time contributor to The New York Times and the op-ed page of USA TODAY, among other national publications. Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter Diane McWhorter’s Pulitzer Prizewinning and painstakingly researched opus of the civil rights battle in Birmingham, Alabama, is as critically relevant as ever. Diane McWhorter’s 2001 Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, Carry Me Home, will exhaust you.
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