River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize : Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus : A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey
ISBN: 9780803233928
Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / University of Nebraska
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a time
Subjects: African Americans : Civil rights : Florida : Tallahassee : History : 20th century.;

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.


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