It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read To Live Here, You Have to Fight by Jessica Wilkerson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service. Jessica Wilkerson tells their stories within the larger drama of efforts to enact change in the 1960s and 1970s. She shows white Appalachian women acting as leaders and soldiers in a grassroots war on poverty--shaping and sustaining programs, engaging in ideological debates, offering fresh visions of...
To Live Here, You Have to Fight by Jessica Wilkerson is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read To Live Here, You Have to Fight aloud.
To Live Here, You Have to Fight is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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