04274cam a2200649 4500 577275240 TxAuBib 20220511120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250319432 1250319439 5fa6e49f-42bb-43c3-b258-e98dc54e4ad3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4300907 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gergel, Richard. Unexampled Courage [OverDrive] : The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring. Macmillan Audio, 2019. racism. books on tape. audiobooks. twentieth century history. audio books. Civil Rights. Harry Truman. United States History. Civil Rights movement. 20th century History. modern history. Black History Month. black americans. black people. black history books. npr best books of the year. african american history books. african american nonfiction. history of the 1900s. 1900s history. african american people. black nonfiction. brown vs board of education. judge waties waring. supreme court ruling. best books of 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 238MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 238MB. History. Politics. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>*The book that inspired the 2021 PBS American Experience documentary, <i>The Blinding of Isaac Woodard.*</i><br /> This program includes an introduction read by the author.<br /> How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America's civil rights history.</b><br /> On February 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning, decorated African American veteran, was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, South Carolina, after he challenged the bus driver's disrespectful treatment of him. Woodard, in uniform, was arrested by the local police chief, Lynwood Shull, and beaten and blinded while in custody.<br /> President Harry Truman was outraged by the incident. He established the first presidential commission on civil rights and his Justice Department filed criminal charges against Shull. In July 1948, following his commission's recommendation, Truman ordered an end to segregation in the U.S. armed forces. An all-white South Carolina jury acquitted Shull, but the presiding judge, J. Waties Waring, was conscience-stricken by the failure of the court system to do justice by the soldier. Waring described the trial as his "baptism of fire," and began issuing major civil rights decisions from his Charleston courtroom, including his 1951 dissent in <i>Briggs v. Elliott</i> declaring public school segregation per se unconstitutional. Three years later, the Supreme Court adopted Waring's language and reasoning in <i>Brown v. Board of Education</i>.<br /> Richard Gergel's <i>Unexampled Courage</i> details the impact of the blinding of Sergeant Woodard on the racial awakening of President Truman and Judge Waring, and traces their influential roles in changing the course of America's civil rights history.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-10 20:00:03. Zingarelli, Tom. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/4300907-UnexampledCourage.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5fa6e49f-42bb-43c3-b258-e98dc54e4ad3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/4300907-UnexampledCourage.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5fa6e49f-42bb-43c3-b258-e98dc54e4ad3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)