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Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ana Maria SpagnaSeries:River Teeth Literary Nonfiction PrizePublish date:2010-04-01Pages:286
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803217126ISBN-10:803217129UPC:9780803217126Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Civil Rights, Minority StudiesSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC1DCZTYTV
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. Spagna travels from her remote mountain home in the Pacific Northwest to contemporary Tallahassee, searching for the truth of the incident and her father's involvement. Her journey is complicated by the fact that her father never spoke of the Sunnyland experience and died unexpectedly when she was eleven. Seeking out the other bus riders, now in their seventies, Spagna tries to make sense of their conflicting stories. Her odyssey becomes further troubled by the sudden diagnosis of her mother's terminal cancer. Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction prize, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus deftly weaves cultural and personal history, memoir, and reportage in this fascinating look at a family and a nation's past.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803217126ISBN-10:803217129UPC:9780803217126Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Civil Rights, Minority StudiesSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC1DCZTYTV
Ana Maria Spagna is the author of Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw, which was named a Best Book of 2004 by the Seattle Times. Her work has appeared widely in publications such as Orion, Utne Reader, and North American Review. She lives and writes in Stehekin, Washington.
Publisher: Bison Books

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