How long does it take to read My Soul Is Rested?
movement days in the Deep South remembered
Howell Raines
My Soul Is Rested by Howell Raines takes about 8 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 39 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1977. 472 pages, about 129,800 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Interviews with leaders, followers, and opponents of the civil rights movement in the South present the history of that movement from the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968.
Subjects: Interviews, Afro-Americans, African Americans, Civil rights, Civil rights workers, Southern states, social conditions
