A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow South /

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)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown Spark, [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Dinning, George. Young, Bennett Henderson, > 1843-1919. African Americans > Crimes against > Kentucky > Simpson County > History. Trials > Kentucky > Simpson County > History. Kentucky > Race relations > History. Freedmen > Kentucky. HISTORY / African American. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.

Description
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.
Physical Description:	xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and index.
ISBN:	9780316535540 0316535540