Birmingham, 1963 cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 4.4
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 753
Points per Word 0.000664
Page Count 40
Points per Page 0.0125

Description

Captured in this book is the heartbreak of September 15, 1963, when members of the Ku Klux Klan planted nineteen sticks of dynamite under the back steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which served as a meeting place for civil rights organizers.