| Description |
1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations |
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River teeth literary nonfiction prize |
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River teeth literary nonfiction prize (Series)
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| 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 |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, winner |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Spagna, Joe, -1979.
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Spagna, Ana Maria.
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Spagna, Ana Maria
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Spagna, Joe, d. 1979
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Spagna, Joe, -1979 |
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Spagna, Ana Maria |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Florida -- Tallahassee -- History -- 20th century
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Boycotts -- Florida -- Tallahassee -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
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African Americans -- Civil rights
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Boycotts
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Race relations
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Tallahassee (Fla.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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Florida -- Tallahassee
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009034320 |
| ISBN |
9780803233928 |
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0803233922 |
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