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A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south / Ben Montgomery. by Montgomery, Ben. Little, Brown Spark, 2021. Call #: 976.904 M787s Subjects Dinning, George.   Young, Bennett Henderson, 1843-1919.   Blacks -- Crimes against -- Kentucky -- History.   Trials -- Kentucky -- History.   Freedmen -- Kentucky.   Kentucky -- Race relations -- History. ISBN:  9780316535540 (hc) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xvii, 285 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-272) and index. Summary:  "The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and'" by the Chicago Review of Books One of CNN's most anticipated books of 2021. After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County, Kentucky. Half carried rifles and shotguns, and a few tucked pistols in their pants. Their target was George Dinning, a freed slave who'd farmed peacefully in the area for 14 years, and who had been wrongfully accused of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm. When the mob began firing through the doors and windows of Dinning's home, he fired back in self-defense, shooting and killing the son of a wealthy Kentucky family. So began one of the strangest legal episodes in American history -- one that ended with Dinning becoming the first Black man in America to win damages after a wrongful murder conviction. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery resurrects this dramatic but largely forgotten story, and the unusual convergence of characters -- among them a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer named Bennett H. Young, Kentucky governor William O'Connell Bradley, and George Dinning himself -- that allowed this unlikely story of justice to unfold in a time and place where justice was all too rare."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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