How long does it take to read Civil Rights?
Civil Rights by Thomas Sowell takes about 3 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours
A weekend read
First published 1984. 164 pages, about 45,100 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which they continue, Who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights revolution have stood the test of time and which have proven to be mistaken or even catastrophic to those who were supposed to be helped?
Subjects: Civil rights, Affirmative action programs, Ethnic groups, Race relations, Nonfiction, Politics
