Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
7986
Points per Word
0.000125
Page Count
108
Points per Page
0.009259
Series
Who Was...?/Who Is...?
Description
Born into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation signed in 1863. Yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist.