How Long to Read Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream

How Long Does it Take to Read Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 32 minutes to read Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream by Candace O’Connor

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Nothing about Homer G. Phillips Hospital came easily. Built to serve St. Louis’s rapidly expanding African-American population, the grand new hospital opened its doors in 1937, toward the end of the Great Depression. “Homer G.,” as many called it, joined a burgeoning group of black hospitals amid a national period of institutional segregation and strong racial prejudice nationwide. When the beautiful, up-to-date hospital opened, it attracted more black residents than any other such program in the United States. Patients also flocked to the hospital, as did nursing students who found there excellent training, ready employment, and a boost into the middle class. For decades, the hospital thrived; by the 1950s, three-quarters of African-American babies in St. Louis were born at Homer G. But the 1960s and 1970s brought less need for all-black hospitals, as faculty, residents, and patients were increasingly welcome in the many newly integrated institutions. Ever-tightening city budgets meant less money for the hospital, and in 1979, despite protests from the African-American community, HGPH closed. Years later, the venerated, long-vacant building came to life again as the Homer G. Phillips Senior Living Community. Candace O’Connor draws upon contemporary newspaper articles, institutional records, and dozens of interviews with former staff members to create the first, full history of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital. She also brings new facts and insights into the life and mysterious murder (still an unsolved case) of the hospital’s namesake, a pioneering Black attorney and civil rights activist who led the effort to build the sorely needed medical facility in the Ville neighborhood.

How long is Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream?

Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream by Candace O’Connor is 331 pages long, and a total of 83,081 words.

This makes it 112% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 33 minutes to read Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream aloud.

What Reading Level is Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream?

Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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