Test ride on the Sunnyland bus :: a daughter's civil rights journey /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Spagna, Ana Maria
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010.
Schriftenreihe:River teeth literary nonfiction prize (Series)
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations
Format: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.
Auszeichnungen:River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, winner.
ISBN:9780803233928
0803233922