Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
Author: Bowers, Rick
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
10.1
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
21974
Points per Word
0.000182
Page Count
120
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
This book chronicles how the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission attempted to halt racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s through an extensive propaganda effort to label civil rights leaders and their followers as communists.