It takes the average reader 5 hours and 34 minutes to read Born and Raised in Sawdust by Lewis Thigpen Ph.D. PE
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Born and Raised in Sawdust: My Journey Around the World in Eighty Years is the deeply moving autobiography of Lewis Thigpen as a black boy growing up in a loving family in a small, tight knit community in the deep South during the extremely segregated Jim Crow era. It captures his life on the farm and in school in a revealing, instructive, yet colorful way despite the discrimination he encountered. Fearful of being a farm worker or common laborer for the rest of his life, he joined the U.S. Army, where racism persisted even though President Truman had ordered desegregation of the entire...
Born and Raised in Sawdust by Lewis Thigpen Ph.D. PE is 332 pages long, and a total of 83,664 words.
This makes it 112% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 37 minutes to read Born and Raised in Sawdust aloud.
Born and Raised in Sawdust is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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