Girl, Don't You Jump Rope!

Girl, Don't You Jump Rope!
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 9781491735862
ISBN-13 : 1491735864
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Book Synopsis Girl, Don't You Jump Rope! by : Betty Anne Hennings Jackson

Download or read book Girl, Don't You Jump Rope! written by Betty Anne Hennings Jackson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life experiences revealed in GIRL, DONT YOU JUMP ROPE! make this memoir by Betty Anne Jackson, truly engrossing. There were no signs that read colored or white, yet everyone knew where the boundaries were in 40s and 50s Chicago. And, being colored meant there was no way to escape the limits that segregation imposed on ones life. The author describes attending a ghetto school, as well as encountering a hostile experience at university level, and then a cross-burning on the lawn of the vacation home she and her husband shared with friends. With humor, she paints a heartfelt portrait of the contrasts between the tree-lined neighborhood of her very early years and the harsh realities of how ghetto living can engulf the human spirit. Betty Anne had no choice other than to grow up in one of the earliest housing projects on the south side of Chicago, but she always struggled to be FROM the project...not OF the project! This is the story of that struggle.


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