Girl, Don't You Jump Rope‪!‬

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.