Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
9.3
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
16513
Points per Word
0.000182
Page Count
93
Points per Page
0.032258
Series
Drama of American History
Description
This book describes the struggles following the Civil War to decide how to deal with the newly-freed slaves, through the years of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, sharecropping, and segregation. The coauthor is James Lincoln Collier.