||| FROM PHIL HEIKKINEN for ORCAS LIBRARY |||
BEN MONTGOMERY
Author of A Shot in the Moonlight
Wednesday, March 10 @ 6:00pm via Zoom™
In his latest book – A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South – Ben Montgomery unravels the sensational and little-known story of George Dinning’s life, and the fascinating legal episode that ended with him becoming the first Black man in America to win damages against a would-be lynch mob.
The Orcas Library is delighted to be able to present a Zoom™ book talk by Ben Montgomery
Read Jens Kruse’s review of Montgomery’s book in the Orcasonian here.
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