Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
10.0
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
22959
Points per Word
0.000218
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.044643
Description
This book chronicles The Tuskegee Study, the federal government study of the long-term effects of syphilis on 399 men from 1932 to 1972, which was condemned because the black men were never treated for the disease or told the true nature of the illness.