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    Isaac Woodard Jr. (March 18, 1919 – September 23, 1992) was an American soldier and victim of racial violence. An African-American World War II veteran...
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  • "The Blinding of Isaac Woodard" is a song written by folk performer Woody Guthrie for his 1946 album The Great Dust Storm (the song does not actually...
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  • Shull of Batesburg, South Carolina, and several other officers beat Isaac Woodard, a black man on his way home after serving over three years in the army...
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    NAACP brought to his attention the case of Isaac Woodard. Welles brought significant attention to Woodard's cause. The last broadcast of Orson Welles Commentaries...
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    Truman, Executive Order 9981 was inspired, in part, by an attack on Isaac Woodard who was an American soldier and African American World War II veteran...
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    radically egalitarian rhetoric of Communism) of the beating and blinding of Isaac Woodard three hours after being discharged from the army, President Truman was...
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    egalitarian rhetoric of Communism) from the beating and blinding of Isaac Woodard three hours after being discharged from the army. Truman then attempted...
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  • including the 1946 police beating and blinding of World War II veteran Isaac Woodard while he was in U.S. Army uniform. In 1948 President Harry S. Truman...
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  • Duluth lynchings Louis Allen Scottsboro Boys George Stinney Ossian Sweet Isaac Woodard At the time of Emmett's murder in 1955, Emmett's mother was often referred...
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  • American actor and dairy farmer Horace Woodard (1904–1973), American cinematographer and producer Isaac Woodard (1919–1992), American World War II veteran...
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