#OtD 12 Feb 1946 Isaac Woodard, a 26-year-old Black WWII veteran, still in uniform from being honorably discharged that day, was take to jail, beaten, and permanently blinded by police in South Carolina.
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#OtD 12 Feb 1946 Isaac Woodard, a 26-year-old Black WWII veteran, still in uniform from being honorably discharged that day, was take to jail, beaten, and permanently blinded by police in South Carolina. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12520/isaac-woodward-beaten-by-police
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#OtD 12 Feb 1946 Isaac Woodard, a 26-year-old Black WWII veteran, still in uniform from being honorably discharged that day, was take to jail, beaten, and permanently blinded by police in South Carolina. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12520/isaac-woodward-beaten-by-police
@workingclasshistory The man's name was Woodard, not Woodward. Also, a typo in the article: it's erected, not errected. That said, I didn't know about Isaac before your post and I feel sick about what happened to him.
There's a ton of detail about what happened here:
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@workingclasshistory The man's name was Woodard, not Woodward. Also, a typo in the article: it's erected, not errected. That said, I didn't know about Isaac before your post and I feel sick about what happened to him.
There's a ton of detail about what happened here:
@mason Thanks, those typos have now been corrected
