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Release Date:
March 30, 2021
Original Title:
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Ark Media
GBH
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 112
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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Assistant Editor:
Kirstin E. McNary
Associate Producer:
Caitlin Riggsbee
Book:
Richard Gergel
Director:
Jamila Ephron
Director of Photography:
Stephen McCarthy
Editor:
Nancy Novack
Executive Producer:
Susan Bellows
Cameo George
Music:
Joel Goodman
Producer:
Jamila Ephron
Writer:
Jamila Ephron
Mark Zwonitzer
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