His second book, My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered, hit the shelves only a month later. In 1977, Raines published his first book, Whiskey Man, set in Depression-era Alabama and based roughly on his own family history. From 1971 to 1976, he served as political editor for the Atlanta Constitution and then worked in that position at the St. Raines was married in 1969 to Susan Woodley, whom he divorced in 1990. He also worked at WBRC-TV in Birmingham (1965–1967), the Tuscaloosa News (1968–69), and the Birmingham News (1970). Raines's first reporting job was with the Birmingham Post-Herald, and his first assignment was covering the 1964 Iron Bowl from the sidelines. He earned his bachelor's degree in English from Birmingham-Southern College in 1964 and received his master's degree in English from the University of Alabama in 1973. Raines was born Howell Hiram Raines on February 5, 1943, in Birmingham to Wattie Simeon and Bertha Estelle Walker Raines, the youngest of three siblings.
Although he presided over an unprecedented period of award-winning work at the New York Times, Raines is most commonly associated with reporter Jayson Blair and his plagiarism scandal, which ultimately cost both men their jobs. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Journalist Howell Raines's (1943- ) career took him from a position as a local Birmingham reporter to executive editor of the New York Times. My Soul is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen. Here, too, are voices from the "Down-Home Resistance" that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the "traditions" of the Old South-voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the peeople who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections.
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