Hurst Receives 2008 Florida Book Awards Bronze Medal by Rodney L. Hurst Sr.
“It was never about a
hot dog and a Coke®!” was recently selected as a Bronze Medal Winner in the Nonfiction Category of the 2008 Florida Book Awards book competition.“It was never about a hot dog and a Coke®!”, subtitled “A Personal Account of the 1960 Sit-in Demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday” recounts the times, the mood, and high racial tension in Jacksonville during the civil rights movement.
According to the Florida Book Awards, Hurst’s book competed with more than 135 books from major publishing houses such as HarperCollins, W. W. Norton, Houghton Mifflin Hoarcourt, and various University Presses. Eight category book juries of three members each, nominated from across the state by cosponsoring organizations, selected the medal winners.
The Florida Book Awards is an annual program established in 2006 that recognizes, honors, and celebrates the best Florida literature published the previous year. It is coordinated by The Florida State University Program in American and Florida Studies, and co-sponsored by the Florida Center for the Book, State Library and Archives of Florida, Florida Historical Society, Florida Humanities Council, Florida Literary Arts Coalition, Florida Library Association, “Just Read, Florida!,” Governor’s Family Literacy Initiative, Florida Association for Media in Education, Florida Center for the Literary Arts, the Florida State University Friends of Libraries, and Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.
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