The blinding of Isaac Woodard

Resource Information

The work The blinding of Isaac Woodard represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The blinding of Isaac Woodard

Statement of responsibility

American Experience Films

Contributor

• Holland, André
• James, Rawn
• Gergel, Richard
• Ifill, Sherrilyn A.
• Mack, Kenneth Walter, 1964-
• Woodard, Isaac, 1919-1992
• Frederickson, Kari A.

Interviewee

• Ifill, Sherrilyn A.
• Mack, Kenneth Walter, 1964-
• Frederickson, Kari A.
• James, Rawn
• Gergel, Richard

Narrator

• Holland, André

Subject

• African Americans -- Civil rights | History -- 20th century -- DVD
• African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. | History -- 20th century -- DVD
• African Americans -- Violence against -- South Carolina -- DVD
• Batesburg (S.C.) -- DVD
• Police brutality -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- DVD
• South Carolina -- Race relations | History -- 20th century -- DVD
• Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 -- DVD
• Woodard, Isaac, 1919-1992 -- DVD
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans | Trials, litigation, etc. -- DVD

Genre

• DVD

Language

• eng
• eng

Summary

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

Member of

• American experience

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Stephen McCarthy ; editor, Nancy Novack ; music, Joel Goodman

Intended audience

TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-14 (parents strongly cautioned; this program contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age)

Language note

In English

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PerformerNote

With: Kenneth Mack, Laura Williams, Sherrilyn Ifill, Rawn James, Richard Gergel, Kari Frederickson, Patricia Sullivan ; narrator, André Holland ; voice of Isaac Woodward, Leland Gantt

Runtime

110

Series statement

American experience

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action