Unexampled Courage (10 pm)
Mar 28, 2019 ·
40m 49s
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Author Richard Gergel is in studio to talk about his book Unexampled Courage which delves into the blinding of an African American soldier and the racial awakening of President Truman...
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Author Richard Gergel is in studio to talk about his book Unexampled Courage which delves into the blinding of an African American soldier and the racial awakening of President Truman and the judge who passed sentence, Judge Waties Waring. The story involves Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning decorated veteran who was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, South Carolina on February 12, 1946, after he challenged the bus driver’s disrespectful treatment of him. Woodard, in uniform, was arrested by the local police chief, then beaten and blinded while in custody. President Truman was so outraged by the incident that he established the first presidential commission on civil rights and his Justice Department filed criminal charges against the sheriff.
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