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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

The event that opened the eyes of a nation.

30 Mar 2021
  • United States of America
112 mins
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  • Documentary
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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 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. The event also ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement.
  • André Holland

    as Narrator (voice)
  • Leland Gantt

    as Isaac Woodward (voice)
  • Kenneth Mack

    as Self
  • Sherrilyn Ifill

    as Self
  • Rawn James

    as Self
  • Richard Gergel

    as Self
  • Belinda Gergel

    as Self
  • Robert Young Sr.

    as Self
  • Patricia Sullivan

    as Self
  • Laura Williams

    as Self
  • Gilbert King

    as Self
  • Kari Frederickson

    as Self

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