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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | River teeth literary nonfiction prize (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations |
| Premios: | River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, winner. |
| ISBN: | 9780803233928 0803233922 |