AKA Rebecca Diane McWhorter

Born: 1-Nov-1952
Birthplace: Tupelo, MS

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Carry Me Home

Father: Martin Westgate McWhorter
Mother: Elizabeth Gore Biggs
Husband: Richard Dean Rosen (novelist, m. 2-May-1987, div., two daughters)
Daughter: Isabel
Daughter: Lucy

    High School: The Brooke Hill School, Birmingham, AL
    University: BA Comparative Literature, Wellesley College (1974)

    USA Today Board of Contributors, Forum Page
    The Boston Phoenix
    American Academy in Berlin Holtzbrinck Fellow (2007)

Author of books:
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (2001, history)
A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968 (2004, juvenile)

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