American Experience · SEASON 33
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Episode 3 · 2021-03-30
- Documentary
Episode overview
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.
55 minutes
