03225ngm 2200637Ic 450 991072850950332120210514024808.0(CKB)4970000000219929(FOD)240910(FOD)1000240910(EXLCZ)994970000000219929240910Infobase20210514i20212021 uy vengurmna|||a|||astirdacontentcrdamediavrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Blinding of Isaac Woodard /PBS[Place of publication not identified] : PBS, [2021]©20211 online resource (1 streaming video file (112 min.) digital, sound, color with black and white sequencesBased 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.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, 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.World War, 1939-1945VeteransTrials, litigation, etcAfrican AmericansCivil rightsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansViolence againstSouth CarolinaHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etcHistory20th centuryPolice brutalitySouth CarolinaHistory20th centurySouth CarolinaRace relationsHistory20th centuryTelevision adaptations.lcgftEducational television programs.lcgftHistorical television programs.lcgftNonfiction television programs.lcgftDocumentary television programs.lcgftVideo recordings for the hearing impaired.lcgftInternet videos.lcgftStreaming video.World War, 1939-1945VeteransTrials, litigation, etc.African AmericansCivil rightsHistoryAfrican AmericansViolence againstHistoryAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etc.HistoryPolice brutalityHistoryGergel Richard1438143Ephron JamilaZwonitzer MarkHolland AndréAmerican Experience Films,Ark Media (Firm),AzPhAEMVIDEO9910728509503321The Blinding of Isaac Woodard4179101UNINA