Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.1
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
7353
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
105
Points per Page
0.009524
Series
What Was.../What Is...?
Description
On 8/28/63, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, and it was this peaceful protest that spurred the civil-rights laws.