“It was never about a hot dog and a Coke®!” by author Rodney L. Hurst, Sr. is a 2009 Silver Medal Winner in the South East Best Regional Non-Fiction Category of the Independent Publishers Book Awards. The “IPPY” Awards were conceived as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry, and are open to authors and publishers worldwide who produce books written in English and intended for the North American market. According the Jim Barnes, IPPY Managing Editor & Awards Director, more than 700 books were entered in the Regional competition. http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1294
“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” and published by WingSpan Press, recounts the times, the mood, and the political and racial climate in Jacksonville, Florida during the civil rights movement in the late fifties and early sixties.
Hurst and “It was never about a hot dog and a Coke®!” has compiled an impressive array of awards. Hurst recently won the Bronze Medal for Nonfiction in the 2008 Florida Book Awards; the Inaugural Stetson Kennedy Award (2009) presented by the Florida Historical Society for books which cast light on historic Florida events in a manner which is supportive of human rights, and traditional cultures; and the 2009 Historic Preservation Award from the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission.
“It was never about a hot dog and a Coke®!” Book Awards:
1-2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY)
Silver Medal-Southeast Region Best Regional Nonfiction
2-Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission
2009 Historical Preservation Award
3-The Florida Historical Society
Inaugural Stetson Kennedy Award (2009)
4-The Florida Book Awards
2008 Bronze Medal Winner
5-The National Best Books 2008 Awards
Winner-Multi-Cultural Nonfiction
6-2008 Sabrina Book Reviews
Winner-General Nonfiction
7-2008 Sabrina Book Reviews
Winner-Best Book-2008
8-2008 Reader Views Literary Awards South East Region
Winner-Nonfiction
9-2008 Premier Book Awards
Second Place-Memoir/Autobiography
10-2008 Beach Book Festival
Runner-up-Biography/Autobiography
“It was never about a hot dog and a Coke®!” is available in Jacksonville, Florida at Borders Book Store on Southside Blvd, the Book Tique at the Downtown Jacksonville Public Library on Laura St., the San Marco Book Store, Amazon.com (and most online book stores), and (personalized autographed copies) through the book’s web site, rodneyhurst.com.
Full free audiobook. Listen now. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAQROzxB6ow&list=PL8eJT6MpCTmJoUx0_Bf5-InKdP5Kogy4b) This book is about life and death and overcoming personal struggles to discover the real you that is hidden inside. The story empha
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