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“How Do We Not Know This Story?”: Brutal Incident From Civil Rights History Uncovered In ‘The Blinding Of Isaac Woodard’

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In 1946, it took the blinding of an African-American army veteran to get some white Americans to see—from a federal judge to the president of the United States.It was February of that year when 27-year-old Isaac Woodard stepped aboard a Greyhound bus in Augusta, Georgia for a trip home to South Carolina, just hours after his discharge from serving in World War II.

The journey would take him through the Jim Crow South, into a dark terrain of racial hatred.At one point en route, Sgt. Woodard inquired about the next opportunity for a restroom break.

The bus driver responded “disrespectfully,” according to Jamila Ephron, director of the documentary The Blinding of Isaac Woodard.“Woodard stood up for himself and insisted that he be treated like

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