How long does it take to read A Colored Woman in a White World?
Mary Church Terrell
A Colored Woman in a White World by Mary Church Terrell takes about 8 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 1940. 436 pages, about 119,900 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was a forceful leader in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the movements for civil rights, women's rights, and world peace. As Nellie Y. McKay states in her introduction to Terrell's 1940 autobiography, she was a "quintessential race woman who fully met W. E. B. Du Bois's standards for the Talented Tenth, as well as those of the black club women's 'lifting as we climb' ideal." A fascinating and highly readable memoir, A Colored Woman in a White World documents Terrell's childhood, education, and her very significant contributions to social reform in the United States.
Subjects: Social reformers, Death, Family, African-Americans, African American women social reformers, Civil rights
