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

by Ana Maria Spagna

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803217129
• ISBN13: 9780803217126
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"