Conversations on Race and Policing Present: "A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South"

Join us Wednesday, April 14 at 3 p.m. for a special program with Ben Montgomery, author of the award-winning and New York Times-bestselling Grandma Gatewood's Walk.  He will discuss his most recent book, A Shot in the Moonlight, which tells the sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south.

Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784

Montgomery is also the author of The Leper Spy and The Man Who Walked Backward.

In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting and won the Dart Award and Casey Medal for a series called "For Their Own Good," about abuse at Florida's oldest reform school. In 2018, he won a National Headliner award for journalistic innovation for a project exploring police shootings in Florida. He was among the first fellows for Images and Voices of Hope in 2015 and was selected to be the fall 2018 T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Professor at the University of Montana in Missoula.

Introduction by Dr. Rafik A. Mohamed, Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, who will facilitate the question-and-answer session. 

Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Stan Futch (President, WAG),and CSUSB student Marlo Brooks.

Special thanks to University Advancement, co-sponsor of the program. 

View previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series. 

For questions or more information, contact Robie Madrigal (rmadriga@csusb.edu) or Jeremy Murray (jmurray@csusb.edu).