Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Reading Level
Grade 9
Time to Read
21 hrs 17 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is 8th and 9th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 9
SMOG Index Grade 11
Coleman Liau Index Grade 10
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 6

Reading Time

21 hrs 17 mins

How long to read Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

The estimated word count of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is 319,145 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 21 hrs 17 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 35 hrs 28 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 11 hrs 50 mins.

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference - 319,145 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 35 hrs 28 mins
Average 250 words/min 21 hrs 17 mins
Fast 450 words/min 11 hrs 50 mins
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow
Authors
David Garrow

More about Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

319,145 words

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for Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

34 hours and 19 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. covers the entire life of the leader of the Civil Rights Movement Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews, access to King’s personal papers, and thousands of FBI documents, Bearing the Cross traces King’s metamorphosis from a young, earnest pastor into the foremost spokesperson of the black freedom struggle. At the book’s heart is King’s growing awareness of the symbolic meaning of the cross as he gradually accepts a life that will demand the ultimate in self-sacrifice. This is a towering portrait of a man at the epicenter of one of the most dramatic periods in our history.