Unexampled Courage

How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America’s civil rights history. The book that inspired the 2021 PBS American Experience documentary, The Blinding of Isaac Woodard . 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. Woodard, in uniform, was arrested by the local police chief, Lynwood Shull,