

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: BLACK HISTORY MONTH: The Blinding of Issac Woodard
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Drinks and charcuterie boards served during, limited number of copies of Unexampled Courage by Richard Gergel available to attendees.

In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. The documentary is based on Unexampled Courage by Richard Gergel- and details how the crime led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman, who desegregated federal offices and the military two years later. The event also ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/mayfield/black-history-month-the-blinding-of-issac-woodard/200029563644946
- **Event Categories**: black-history-month, workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 364

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029563644946?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=mayfield-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Mayfield
- **state**: KY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 601 N 17th St, Mayfield, KY, United States, Kentucky 42066
- **lat**: 36.74739
- **long**: -88.6501
- **full address**: 601 N 17th St, Mayfield, KY, United States, Kentucky 42066

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Graves County Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/graves-county-public-library/13522616)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 601 N 17th St, Mayfield, KY, United States, Kentucky 42066
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Graves County Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** black-history-month, workshops
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about BLACK HISTORY MONTH: The Blinding of Issac Woodard ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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