Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
9.6
Points
23.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
119847
Points per Word
0.000192
Page Count
383
Points per Page
0.060052
Description
This book chronicles the events behind a white uprising that occurred when Air Force veteran James Meredith tried to become the first African-American student to register at the University of Mississippi in 1962.