The blinding of Isaac Woodard
Title:
The blinding of Isaac Woodard
Format:
Visual Materials
ISBN:
9781531713645
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Abstract:
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.
Subject:
| 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. |
| South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. |
| Woodard, Isaac, 1919-1992. |
| Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968. |
