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Author Spagna, Ana Maria.

Title Test ride on the Sunnyland bus : a daughter's civil rights journey / Ana Maria Spagna
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations
Series River teeth literary nonfiction prize
River teeth literary nonfiction prize (Series)
Contents In front of Speed's -- Never go back -- The Tallahassee Bus Boycott -- The acquaintance of grief -- The forgotten coast -- Something more -- Handwriting -- Herndon -- The cloven hoof -- City of hope -- Folsom -- Community care -- A real difference -- Orchard burning -- Every. Single. Day -- Tarpon Springs -- Not forgotten -- Heroes and sheroes -- Always go forward
Summary Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement's lesser-known stories. In January 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other young men waited to board a city bus called the Sunnyland in Tallahassee, Florida. Their plan was simple but dangerous: ride the bus togetherthree blacks and three whitesget arrested, and take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifty years later Ana Maria Spagna sets off on a journey to understand what happened and why
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River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, winner
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Subject Spagna, Joe, -1979.
Spagna, Ana Maria.
Spagna, Ana Maria
Spagna, Joe, d. 1979
Spagna, Joe, -1979
Spagna, Ana Maria
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Florida -- Tallahassee -- History -- 20th century
Boycotts -- Florida -- Tallahassee -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
African Americans -- Civil rights
Boycotts
Race relations
Tallahassee (Fla.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Florida -- Tallahassee
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009034320
ISBN 9780803233928
0803233922