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

Contents:

The whites would be bent on revenge
"That protection which the law refuses to give"
"They treated him more than bad and myself all so"
"The people say that Dinning was a worthless Negro"
"We turned and shot back at the house"
To defend ourselves
"There was a good many holes"
"A bullet came through my hair"
Son of the South
A bad man
"The praiseworthy act of killing"
"May the Lord protect us, or the Devil take us"
"I will never come back to Kentucky"
Indiana
"Mass of blood and bones"
The true situation
"A Negro's life is a very cheap thing"
Derby Day
"There was a great rejoicing in Hell this morning"
"The outcome was regarded as sensational"
Squat and fire
"I want to die in the old blue grass"
"Some of this falls down to us".