Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
9.1
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
14574
Points per Word
0.000206
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.026786
Description
The book recounts the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. the Board of Education, which challenged racial segregation in public schools. It follows the legal battle led by NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall and the case brought by Linda Brown and other African American families. The narrative explains how the Court's unanimous decision declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine. The book is written for middle grade readers and provides historical context about school segregation in the United States.