How Long to Read You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live

How Long Does it Take to Read You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 5 minutes to read You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live by Paul Kix

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

Description

From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign—ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America. It’s one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo–that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd–he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the full legacy of the Birmingham photo? And of the campaign it stemmed from? In You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live, Paul Kix takes the reader behind the scenes as he tells the story of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s pivotal 10 week campaign in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time, he also provides a window into the minds of the four extraordinary men who led the campaign—Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, and James Bevel. With page-turning prose that read like a thriller, Kix’s book is the first to zero in on the ten weeks of Project C, as it was known—its specific history and its echoes sounding throughout our culture now. It’s about Where It All Began, for sure, but it’s also the key to understanding Where We Are Now and Where We Will Be. As the fight for equality continues on many fronts, Project C is crucial to our understanding of our own time and the impact that strategic activism can have.

How long is You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live?

You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live by Paul Kix is 243 pages long, and a total of 61,479 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 35 minutes to read You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live aloud.

What Reading Level is You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live?

You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live 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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