It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Separate Pasts by Melton A. McLaurin
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In Separate Pasts Melton A. McLaurin honestly and plainly recalls his boyhood during the 1950s, an era when segregation existed unchallenged in the rural South. In his small hometown of Wade, North Carolina, whites and blacks lived and worked within each other's shadows, yet were separated by the history they shared. Separate Pasts is the moving story of the bonds McLaurin formed with friends of both races—a testament to the power of human relationships to overcome even the most ingrained systems of oppression. A new afterword provides historical context for the development of segregation in...
Separate Pasts by Melton A. McLaurin is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Separate Pasts aloud.
Separate Pasts is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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