 | Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter''s Civil Rights Journey Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Florida -- Tallahassee -- History -- 20th century; Boycotts -- Florida -- Tallahassee -- History -- 20th century; Tallahassee (Fla.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; Spagna Joe d. 1979; Spagna Ana Maria; Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movementOCOs 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 togetherOCothree blacks and three whitesOCoget 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. |
