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

Title:

ISBN:

9780316535540

Personal Author:

Montgomery, Ben

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2021.

Physical Description:

xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary:

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.

Personal Subject:

Dinning, George.

Young, Bennett H. (Bennett Henderson), 1843-1919.

Geographic Term:

Kentucky -- Race relations -- History

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Crimes against -- History--Kentucky--Simpson County

Trials--Kentucky--Simpson County -- History

Freed persons--Kentucky

Black people -- Crimes against--Kentucky--Simpson County -- History

Genre:

Biographies