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"Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a battlefield-decorated African American soldier, climbed aboard a Greyhound bus on February 12, 1946, in Augusta, Georgia, on his last leg home after three years of military service. Things suddenly went awry when a brief heated exchange with the bus driver resulted in Woodard's removal from the bus and his arrest in the small town of Batesburg, South Carolina. Shortly after the Batesburg police chief, Lynwood Shull, took Woodard into custody, he beat the soldier with his blackjack, blinding him. Details of Woodard's tragic encounter soon reached President Harry S.…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2020Picador Paper · 352 pages · 9781250251268
- Audiobook · English · 2019Macmillan Audio · 9781250319449
- Hardcover · English · 2019Sarah Crichton Books · 336 pages · 9780374107895
- Other · English · 2019Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374718510
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