How long does it take to read Devil in the Grove?
Gilbert King
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King takes about 10 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 2012. 545 pages, about 149,875 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming with cheap Jim Crow labor. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl cried rape, vicious Sheriff McCall was fast on the trail of four young blacks who dared to envision a future for themselves. Then the Ku Klux Klan rolled into town, burning homes and chasing hundreds of blacks into the swamps. So began the chain of events that would bring Thurgood Marshall, the man known as "Mr. Civil Rights," into the fray. Associates thought it was suicidal for him to wade into the "Florida Terror" at a time when he was irreplaceable to the burgeoning civil rights movement, but the lawyer would not shrink from the fight--not after the Klan had murdered one of Marshall's NAACP associates and Marshall had endured threats that he would be next. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader against a heroic backdrop.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Race relations, Civil rights, History, Trials (Rape), African Americans, Rape
