Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring Cover
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Unexampled Courage The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring

Richard Gergel

*The book that inspired the 2021 PBS American Experience documentary, 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. Wo...

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This book was mentioned as a wonderful biography about Judge Wearing and his racial awakening, detailing how the white Southern conservative judge opened his eyes to racial injustice by self-teaching about the Reconstruction era and racial injustice.

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So you mentioned Judge Wearing from South Carolina. So Judge Richard Gurgle, who I think actually holds the seat now that Judge Wearing sat in has actually a pretty wonderful book that's sort of a bio...

— Episode: Magical Moment

Episode: Magical Moment

This book was mentioned as a wonderful biography about Judge Wearing and his racial awakening, detailing how the white Southern conservative judge opened his eyes to racial injustice by self-teaching about the Reconstruction era and racial injustice.

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So you mentioned Judge Wearing from South Carolina. So Judge Richard Gurgle, who I think actually holds the seat now that Judge Wearing sat in has actually a pretty wonderful book that's sort of a biography of the judge but also of his kind of racial awakening, right?

Anyway, it's called Unexampled Courage. And if people haven't heard of it and don't really know about Judge Wearing, it's worth picking up.

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