Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus |
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| Editor:
| Spagna, Ana Maria |
| Series title: | River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-282-55583-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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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 together three blacks and three whites get arrested, and take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifty years later Ana Maria Spagna sets off on a journey...
More DescriptionTest 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 together three blacks and three whites get 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."