How Long to Read The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V

How Long Does it Take to Read The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 24 minutes to read The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V by Clarence Mitchell Jr.

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Description

Volume V of The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. records the successful effort to pass the 1957 Civil Rights Act: the first federal civil rights legislation since 1875. Prior to the US Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the NAACP had faced an impenetrable wall of opposition from southerners in Congress. Basing their assertions on the court’s 1896 “separate but equal” decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, legislators from the South maintained that their Jim Crow system was nondiscriminatory and thus constitutional. In their view, further civil rights laws were unnecessary. In ruling that legally mandated segregation of public schools was unconstitutional, the Brown decision demolished the southerners’ argument. Mitchell then launched the decisive stage of the struggle to pass modern civil rights laws. The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first comprehensive lobbying campaign by an organization dedicated to that purpose since Reconstruction. Coming on the heels of the Brown decision, the 1957 law was a turning point in the struggle to accord Black citizens full equality under the Constitution. The act’s passage, however, was nearly derailed in the Senate by southern opposition and Senator Strom Thurmond’s record-setting filibuster, which lasted more than twenty-four hours. Congress later weakened several provisions of the act but—crucially—it broke a psychological barrier to the legislative enactment of such measures. The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. is a detailed record of the NAACP leader’s success in bringing the legislative branch together with the judicial and executive branches to provide civil rights protections during the twentieth century.

How long is The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V?

The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V by Clarence Mitchell Jr. is 674 pages long, and a total of 171,196 words.

This makes it 227% the length of the average book. It also has 209% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 35 minutes to read The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V aloud.

What Reading Level is The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V?

The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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