'The Blinding of Isaac Woodard' in the Lewisohn Stadium (in New York City) one night for more than 36,000 people, and I got the loudest applause I've ever got in my whole life." In January 2019, a new book about the Woodard case and its aftermath, Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring, was published; it was written by Federal Judge Richard Gergel. Other events Woodard's "drunk and disorderly" conviction was vacated in 2018. A group of veterans which was led by Don North, a retired Army major from Carrollton, Georgia, received permission to erect a historical marker in honor of Woodard in Batesburg-Leesville in South Carolina. In 2019 the marker was unveiled. The bottom part of the marker was written in Braille. See also Medgar Evers Harry T. Moore Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore Murder of James Byrd Jr. Philleo Nash The Scottsboro Boys Ossian Sweet Emmett Till Booker T. Spicely George Floyd George Stinney Rodney King Human rights in the United States Incarceration in the United States Lynching in the United States African-American veterans lynched after World War I Military history of African Americans Murder of Lemuel Penn Police brutality in the United States Race and crime in the United States Race in the United States criminal justice system Racial bias in criminal news in the United States Racial profiling#In the United States Racism against African Americans Racism in the United States Use of torture by police in the United States References Further reading Egerton, John. Speak Now Against the Day, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Gardner, Michael. Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Press, 2002. Yarborough, Tinsley. A Passion for Justice: J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Gergel, Richard. Unexampled Courage: the Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring, FSG, 2019. External links Picture of Isaac Woodard Andrew Myers, Resonant Ripples in a Global Pond: The Blinding of Isaac Woodard, website includes associated primary documents - Isaac Woodard court transcripts, military documentation, et al., paper/website for 2002 American Studies Association conference The blinding of Isaac Woodard J. Elkins, "Practical Moral Philosophy for Lawyers" - discusses Woodard case in some detail Interview with