The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

André Holland

Narrator (voice)

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Leland Gantt

Isaac Woodward (voice)

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Kenneth Mack

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Sherrilyn Ifill

Herself

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Rawn James

Himself

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Richard Gergel

Himself

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Belinda Gergel

Herself

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Robert Young Sr.

Himself

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jamila Ephron
Production	Producer	Jamila Ephron
	Associate Producer	Caitlin Riggsbee
	Executive Producer	Susan Bellows Cameo George
Editing	Editor	Nancy Novack
	Assistant Editor	Kirstin E. McNary
Writing	Book	Richard Gergel
	Writer	Jamila Ephron Mark Zwonitzer
Camera	Director of Photography	Stephen McCarthy
Sound	Music	Joel Goodman
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