Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
25331
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
120
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
This award-winning account introduces the efforts of student volunteers who traveled to Mississippi in 1964 to encourage African Americans to exercise their right to vote and discusses the violent resistance they faced from supporters of segregation.