A shot in the moonlight, how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south, Ben Montgomery
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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
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A shot in the moonlight
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1153635279
Responsibility statement
Ben Montgomery
Sub title
how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south
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
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- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
- Trials -- Kentucky -- History
- African Americans + Crimes against -- Kentucky -- History
- Freed persons -- Kentucky
- Young, Bennett H., Bennett Henderson, 1843-1919
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History
- HISTORY / African American
- Dinning, George
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- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
- Trials -- Kentucky -- History
- African Americans + Crimes against -- Kentucky -- History
- Freed persons -- Kentucky
- Young, Bennett H., Bennett Henderson, 1843-1919
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History
- HISTORY / African American
- Dinning, George
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