How a Black Farmer in the Jim Crow South Won Damages From His Would-Be Lynchers
A new book tells the true story of a formerly enslaved man named George Dinning, who became the first Black man in the U.S. to win damages after a wrongful murder conviction by teaming up with a lawyer who had formerly fought for the Confederate Army. Pulitzer Prize finalist and journalist Ben Montgomery joins us to discuss his book, A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South.