Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.2
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
24730
Points per Word
0.000202
Page Count
160
Points per Page
0.03125
Series
Civil Rights Movement
Description
This book chronicles the 1955 murder in Money, Mississippi, of Chicago teenager Emmett Till by local store owner Roy Bryant and his brother-in-law, J.W. Milam, and the trial and acquittal that followed.