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(0)Richard Gergel
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction book detailing the case of Isaac Woodard, its influence on Judge J. Waties Waring, and how Waring went on to lay the groundwork for landmark civil rights rulings"--
February 12, 1946. Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a decorated African American veteran, was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, South Carolina after challenging the driver's treatment of him. He was arrested by the local police chief, Lynwood Shull, and beaten and blinded...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
This new documentary tells of a horrific, little-known incident of racial violence by police that became a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and,...