A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south / Ben Montgomery.

A true tale of justice in the Jim Crow south relates the story of George Dinning, a freed slave who was wrongfully convicted of murder after defending himself against a white mob and later won damages against them in court with the help of a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Montgomery, Ben (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2021.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Dinning, George. Young, Bennett H. > (Bennett Henderson), > 1843-1919. African Americans > Crimes against > Kentucky > Simpson County > History. Trials > Kentucky > Simpson County > History. Kentucky > Race relations > History. Freed persons > Kentucky. HISTORY / African American. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black. African Americans > Crimes against. Freed persons. Race relations. Trials. Kentucky. History. Biographies.
Genre:	History. Biographies.
Physical Description:	xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

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