How long does it take to read Walking with the Wind?
John Lewis, Michael D'Orso
Walking with the Wind by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso takes about 9 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 39 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 526 pages, about 144,650 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 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was present at all the major battlefields of the movement. Arrested more than forty times and severely beaten on several occasions, he was one of the youngest yet most courageous leaders. Walking with the Wind offers rare insight into the movement and the personalities of all the civil rights leaders-what was happening behind the scenes, the infighting, struggles, and triumphs. Lewis takes us from the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he led more than five hundred marchers on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
Subjects: African American civil rights workers, Afro-Americans, United States. Congress. House, Legislators, Afro-American legislators, Civil rights
