How long does it take to read Letter from the Birmingham Jail?
Martin Luther King Jr., Dion Graham
Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr., Dion Graham takes about 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 39 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1963. 35 pages, about 9,625 words.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
SC-SPCOLL (copy 1): From the James and Margaret Beveridge Fonds.
Subjects: Civil disobedience, Race relations, Nonviolence, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, African Americans
