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Book review: In "A Shot in the Moonlight," Ben Montgomery tells the tale of a mob of night riders, a Black farmer who stood up to them, and a white man who defended him in court. ....
Book World: How a Black man escaped a lynch mob - then sued its members Marjoleine Kars, The Washington Post Feb. 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Ben Montgomery - - - In 2019, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., introduced the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, named after the 14-year-old Chicago boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955. The legislation would at last make lynching a federal crime. The bill passed in the House only to stall in the Senate. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., thought its definition of lynching was too broad and prevented the measure from passing, drawing the ire of Democratic senators Cory Booker (N.J.) and Kamala Harris (Calif.). America had missed an opportunity, Booker charged, to acknowledge its racist past and look forward to a better future. ....
Lt. Bennett Young drew the blueprint for Old West bank robberies far from the West. In October 1864, he and 20 Confederate soldiers snuck into St. Albans, Vermont (in civilian clothes). ....
BY ROLAND KLOSE St. Louis Post-Dispatch February 10, 2021 41 “A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South” by Ben Montgomery; Little Brown Spark (304 pages, $28) About 500 St. Louisans gathered in 1914 for the dedication of a Confederate memorial in Forest Park, where Bennett H. Young, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans Association, eulogized the “bravery” and “bitter determination” of the 600,000 Southern men who fought for a “cause they believed to be right.” Young, an apologist for the Confederacy, played a key role in littering the country with memorials to the “Lost Cause,” but, as in all things, his story is complicated. ....