It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read The Selma Campaign by Craig Swanson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Troopers, advance! Those two words, shouted by a police commander in Selma, Alabama, some 50 years ago, changed the course of U.S. history. The date was March 7, 1965. The scene was the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And the resulting violence spurred an appalled nation into action. The Selma Campaign chronicles one of the most successful - and deadly - protest campaigns of the Civil Rights era. In doing so, it renders a fascinating portrait of life in the Deep South during the mid-1960s. Author Craig Swanson focuses special attention on the movement's "foot soldiers," those otherwise ordinary people...
The Selma Campaign by Craig Swanson is 263 pages long, and a total of 66,539 words.
This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read The Selma Campaign aloud.
The Selma Campaign is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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