Louisville Courier Journal December 23 1899
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Former Confederate Bennett H. Young served as Dinning's attorney. Shocked that the courts upheld the rights of a black man over the wishes of a white mob, W.S. Moore, leader of the attackers, committed suicide, states the Louisville Courier-Journal of December 23, 1899.
This file appears in: The Dinnings
The Dinnings
You are standing before the site of one of the homes inhabited by George and Mollie Dinning and their children. One winter night, a mob forced Mollie Dinning and her children to abandon their farm in Simpson County, Kentucky, ill-clad and robbed of…