Test ride on the Sunnyland bus : a daughter's civil rights journey / Ana Maria Spagna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spagna, Ana Maria.

Series:

River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--Florida--Tallahassee--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Boycotts--Florida--Tallahassee--History--20th century.

Boycotts.

Tallahassee (Fla.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Tallahassee (Fla.).

Spagna, Joe, -1979.

Spagna, Joe.

Spagna, Ana Maria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

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 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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612555831

9781282555839

1282555839

9780803233928

0803233922

OCLC:

609859516