Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.4
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2483
Points per Word
0.000201
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Series
Heroes of Black History
Description
When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, the world mourned. Though just 39 years old, King's work in the civil rights movement had already transformed American and world history.