19 Facts About Isaac Woodard

Isaac Woodard attended local segregated schools, often underfunded for African Americans during the Jim Crow years.

On October 14,1942, the 23-year-old Isaac Woodard enlisted in the United States Army at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina.

Isaac Woodard served in the Pacific theater in a labor battalion as a longshoreman and was promoted to sergeant.

On February 12,1946, Isaac Woodard was on a Greyhound Lines bus traveling from Camp Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, where he had been discharged, en route to rejoin his family in North Carolina.

Isaac Woodard returned to his seat from the rest stop without incident, and the bus departed.

Isaac Woodard had partial amnesia as a result of his injuries.

Isaac Woodard further testified that he was punched in the eyes by police several times on the way to the jail, and later repeatedly jabbed in his eyes with a billy club.

Newspaper accounts indicate that Isaac Woodard's eyes had been "gouged out"; historical documents indicate that each globe was ruptured irreparably in the socket.

Not knowing where he was and still experiencing amnesia, Isaac Woodard ended up in a hospital in Aiken, receiving substandard medical care.

Three weeks after he was reported missing by his relatives, Isaac Woodard was discovered in the hospital.

Isaac Woodard was immediately rushed to an Army hospital in Spartanburg.

Isaac Woodard criticized the lack of action by the South Carolina government as intolerable and shameful.

Isaac Woodard claimed that Woodard had threatened him with a gun and that Shull had used his nightclub in self-defense.

Isaac Woodard moved north after the trial during the Second Great Migration and lived in the New York City area for the rest of his life.

Isaac Woodard died aged 73 in the Veterans Administration hospital in the Bronx on September 23,1992.

Isaac Woodard was buried with military honors at the Calverton National Cemetery in Calverton, New York.

Isaac Woodard asked them to report by the end of 1947.

Isaac Woodard had seen by Woodard's and other cases that the issue could not be left to state and local governments.

Isaac Woodard had been exempted from the term limitations which are imposed by the 22nd amendment.