The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Overview
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.
Similar
Profiled (2016)
David Harewood on Blackface (2023)
Stop The Tour (2019)
The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files (2019)
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name (2021)
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed (2008)
CORONA.FILM - Prologue (2021)
Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 (2017)
L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later (2017)
Open Secret (2025)
Preschool to Prison (2023)
The Rape of Recy Taylor (2019)
The Antifascists (2017)
Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu (2022)
Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1 (2011)
The Problem with Apu (2017)
Show Me Democracy (2016)
White Power: Inside Europe's Far-Right Movement (2024)
There's Something in the Water (2019)
The Dark Figure (2018)