Reading Time
1 hrs 55 mins
How long to read Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow?
The estimated word count of Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow is 28,520 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 1 hrs 55 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 11 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 1 hrs 4 mins.
| Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow - 28,520 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 3 hrs 11 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 1 hrs 55 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 1 hrs 4 mins |
- Authors
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.Tonya Bolden
More about Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
28,520 words
Word Count
for Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
240 pages
Pages
3 hours and 4 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow segregation.This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will come face-to-face with the people and events of Reconstruction's noble democratic experiment, its tragic undermining, and the drawing of a new "color line" in the long Jim Crow era that followed. In introducing young readers to them, and to the resiliency of the African American people at times of progress and betrayal, Professor Gates shares a history that remains vitally relevant today.