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African Americans Crimes against Kentucky History Appalachian Trail History Dinning, George Freedmen Kentucky Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell -1973 Hikers Appalachian Trail Biography Kentucky Race relations History Trials Kentucky History Women conservationists Appalachian Trail Biography Young, Bennett Henderson 1843-1919Montgomery, Ben.
Summary: "Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GATEWOOD, EMMA ROWENA CALDWELL MONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem GatewoodMontgomery, Ben
Summary: A true tale of justice in the Jim Crow south relates the story of George Dinning, a freed slave who was wrongfully convicted of murder after defending himself against a white mob and later won damages against them in court with the help of a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2021