Title: Shot in the Moonlight
Description: 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.
Subjects: Trials (murder), Judicial error, Kentucky, history, African Americans, Crimes against, History, Trials, Freed persons, Race relations, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black, Freedmen, HISTORY / African American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination