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

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Spagna, Ana Maria

 
9780803217126: Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey
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ISBN 10 : 0803217129 ISBN 13 : 9780803217126
Editeur : Bison Books, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Bison Books
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803217129
ISBN 13 
9780803217126
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
286
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780803233928: Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0803233922 ISBN 13 :  9780803233928
Editeur : BISON BOOKS, 2010
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