Where To Stream American Experience Season 33 Episode 3
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
- Aired March 30, 2021
- 120 Min
- Rated 5.6
- Number 106 Of 108 Rated Episodes
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...