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Learn More about Isaac Woodard and the Destruction of Legalized Segregation

March 29, 2021
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Sergeant Isaac Woodard walking down an aisle, October 26,1946. Likely taken while Woodard was on his speaking tour with the NAACP. The AFRO American Newspapers Archives

 

Books:

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Kari Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South
 

 

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Richard Gergel, Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of America

 

 

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Tinsley E. Yarbrough, A Passion for Justice: J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights
 

 

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Rawn James, The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military
 

 

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Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle For Equality
 

 

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Ophelia De Laine Gona, Dawn of Desegregation: J.A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliott
 

 

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Michael R. Gardner, Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks
 

 

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Patricia Sullivan, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
 

 

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