Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.0
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
35707
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
181
Points per Page
0.033149
Description
This book profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants. The coauthor is Judith Fradin.