Francie Cover:Paperback If they can get across

If they can get across town and back safely

Rosa Parks grew up during segregation in Alabama

On the evening of May 31

and Marie Curie

Francie Cover:Paperback If they can get acrossFrancie lives with her mother and younger brother, Prez, in rural Alabama, where all three work and wait. Francie's father is trying to get settled in Chicago so he can move his family up North. Unfortunately, he's made promises he hasn't kept, and Francie painfully learns that her dreams of starting junior high school in an integrated urban classroom will go unfulfilled. Amid the day to day grind of working odd jobs for wealthy white folks on the