When We Were Colored cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 6.6
Points 6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 36719
Points per Word 0.000163
Page Count 153
Points per Page 0.039216

Description

In this book, the author tells the story of his life, and the lives of other African-American people who lived in Glen Allan, Mississippi and similar small southern towns during the last years of segregation.