The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard (2021)

The event that opened the eyes of a nation.

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.

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  • Release Date: 2021-03-30
  • Runtime: 1h 52min
  • Director: Jamila Ephron

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Cast

  • André Holland

    Narrator (voice)

  • Leland Gantt

    Isaac Woodward (voice)

  • Kenneth Mack

    Self

  • Sherrilyn Ifill

    Self

  • Rawn James

    Self

  • Richard Gergel

    Self

  • Belinda Gergel

    Self

  • Robert Young Sr.

    Self

  • Patricia Sullivan

    Self

  • Laura Williams

    Self

  • Gilbert King

    Self

  • Kari Frederickson

    Self

  • J. A. De Laine Jr.

    Self

  • Nathanial Briggs

    Self

  • Harry S. Truman

    Self (archive footage)

  • Orson Welles

    Self (archive footage)

  • Isaac Woodard

    Self (archive footage)

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