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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard / / PBS |
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[Place of publication not identified] : , : PBS, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 streaming video file (112 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Veterans - Trials, litigation, etc |
African Americans - Civil rights - United States - History - 20th century |
African Americans - Violence against - South Carolina - History - 20th century |
African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - History - 20th century |
Police brutality - South Carolina - History - 20th century |
Television adaptations. |
Educational television programs. |
Historical television programs. |
Nonfiction television programs. |
Documentary television programs. |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
Internet videos. |
Streaming video |
South Carolina Race relations History 20th century |
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Videoregistrazione |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on the book: Unexampled courage : the blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring / Richard Gergel. |
Originally produced as an episode of the television series: American experience. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel's book Unexampled Courage, the film details how the crime led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman, who desegregated federal offices and the military two years later. |
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