Talk:Isaac Woodard

Michael R. Gardner the author and attorney
As to my suggestion that Gardner be included in Wikipedia's biographic entries, I would simply submit the following public info which I have copied:

Attorney and author. Bracewell and Patterson (law firm), partner, 1977-82; Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, and Feld (law firm), Washington, DC, partner, 1982-89; The Law Offices of Michael R. Gardner, P.C., Washington, DC, communications policy lawyer, 1990—. College of Georgetown University, Washington, DC, adjunct professor, 1992-2000. United States Ambassador to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 1982; United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), founder and pro bono chair, 1982—; served on Presidential Commissions of Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, including President's Committee for Mental Retardation, Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States, Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation of Washington, DC, and International Cultural Trace Center Commission.

AWARDS, HONORS: Conde Naste Award, Georgetown College, 1990; Chairman of the College Board of Advisors' Award, Georgetown University, 1996; Henry Adams Book Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government, 2003, for Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks. Men's Wearhouse Near You - Get the Perfect Look Today $20 Off $100 Coupon - Use It Today! Shop a Wide Variety of Styles menswearhouse.com/Offers | Sponsored▼

WRITINGS: Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks, forewords by George M. Elsey and Kweisi Mfume, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 2002.

SIDELIGHTS: Michael R. Gardner is an attorney and a founder and chairperson of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), a nonprofit joint venture between ranking officials of the federal government and leaders of the communications industry. USTTI's goal is to share advances in technology and communications globally by providing communications training to people in developing countries. Since 1982, the USTTI has graduated 6,633 men and women who are now working to make modern communication a reality for their fellow citizens in 165 developing countries.

Gardner is also the author of an award-winning study, Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks. Gardner had served on commissions during the terms of four presidents and also taught at Georgetown University, and his interest in presidential history is apparent in this volume, which offers a unique and uncommon perspective on Truman as a champion of civil rights. As Gardner notes, Truman was the first president to have an integrated inaugural during a period when the nation's capitol continued to be segregated and was the first president to accept a speaking invitation from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). During his seven years as president, Truman named the first black judge to the federal bench, ended segregation in the federal civil service and armed forces, desegregated Washington's public swimming pools, and, in 1953, delivered the commencement address at the historically black Howard University.

Michael S. Neiberg reviewed the book in American Studies International, noting that Gardner contends that Truman's commitment came from his personal experiences with prejudice in Missouri and the racist attitudes, including those of his mother, that he witnessed there. However, Neiberg called Truman's stance "more like a middle ground than a freshly blazed trail," noting that several of his key reversals of segregation were implemented just months before the 1948 election. Gardner maintains in the book that Truman opposed "the unholy alliance of Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans, risking his chance at the presidency in order to accomplish what was 'morally right.'"

In reviewing Harry Truman and Civil Rights for H-Net Reviews online, Peter M. Carrozzo stated that "Gardner's main contribution is to present a story that has been often overlooked by historians who credit other presidents for civil rights. To demonstrate the social impact of Truman's accomplishments, Gardner includes statements from people who were involved or affected." Carrozzo also noted, "An excellent source that Gardner uses with skill is the biography of White House butler Alonzo Fields. Fields's fond depiction of his friend Harry Truman speaks volumes about the President's true feelings."

Political Science Quarterly's Kevin J. McMahon found that Gardner "presents a forceful case for why Harry Truman deserves recognition as one of history's great champions of civil rights." The reviewer called the book "a captivating story. And Gardner tells it well."

Gardner told CA: "Growing up as I did in the nation's capital in the 1940s and 1950s, I saw firsthand how Washington, D.C., was an apartheid city in every respect. While I had little direct appreciation of the Truman Presidency during those early years, I was keenly aware of the racist environment that dominated Washington, D.C.

"While attending the College of Georgetown University in the early 1960s, I had the good fortune to work for Eunice Kennedy Shriver and to observe members of the Kennedy family. Subsequently, in the 1970s through my extensive work with Texas Governor John B. Connally, I was exposed to many of the Johnson and Nixon Administration officials with whom Connally worked. I also worked closely with the Reagan Administration in the 1980s. Based on the various relationships with several of the leading political forces of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, I became aware of the considerable mythology that had taken root in this country about which president was the real pioneer of federal civil rights reform.

"Based on my lifelong interest in modern American presidents and my firsthand knowledge of the pervasive segregation in the Washington, D.C., of my youth, I determined to document the largely unheralded actions of Harry Truman as he tenaciously challenged segregationists in the Congress and throughout much of the country. After seven years of research that included extensive discussions with several key people who worked closely with Harry Truman in the White House, Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks was published with forewords by Truman historian and former Truman White House staffer George Elsey, and NAACP president Kweisi Mfume. Importantly, for future presidential scholars and students of this country's ongoing civil rights struggle, Harry Truman and Civil Rights documents the fact that neither Franklin Delano Roosevelt, nor Harvard-educated John F. Kennedy, nor the great legislator Lyndon Johnson launched the modern federal civil rights movement; it was our plain talking, high-school educated, thirty-third President from a rural Missouri background—Harry Truman—who forever altered the racial landscape in American as he labored to ensure that all Americans enjoy the full protection of a colorblind Constitution."

{ I myself have written NONE of the above. I am merely  --Dr.Bastedo (talk) 22:38, 13 June 2018 (UTC)  Dr. / Prof. Ralph W. Bastedo, retired. }

Untitled
I'm trying to find some information regarding a successful conviction in the Woodward case. According to this review of Touch of Evil, the reviewer says:

In the second case, Welles used his radio commentary program to help bring to book a policeman who administered the beating to Naval Veteran Woodward, and to publicize the policeman's eventual sentencing to a year in jail for the atrocity.

To date, I have been unable to locate anything in regards to this. Additionally, I do not feel this reference is authorative enough (eg, it states Woodward as having been in the Navy, when he was an Army sergeant) to be cited in the article. If anyone can assist me on this, I would appreciate it. Thanks. --Mitsukai 04:00, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

will do

Isaac Woodard
Although Woodard's name is spelled "Woodward" on the 1920 manuscript census, his Army discharge papers and Social Security records do not include the second "w." For copies of these documents and a slightly different account of the incident, go to http://faculty.uscupstate.edu/amyers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.252.226.90 (talk • contribs)


 * Thanks. It seems clear that in documents he was involved with such as the NAACP lawsuit, the spelling "Woodard" is used, so I have moved the article and corrected the spelling. It's more likely that his unusual spelling was "corrected" by well-meaning journalists and census-takers (notorious mistranscribers, as genealogists know) rather than mistakenly mis-spelled so widely. --Dhartung | Talk 00:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina or Rock Hill. Winnsboro?
Why would a reference to Rock Hill mean Batesburg. They are so far apart. --Gbleem 16:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

The initial bathroom stop wouldn't have been Winnsboro, SC. The ticket was for Winnsboro. The transcript doesn't say exactly where the bathroom stop is, other than "a few miles out of town, about an hour's ride". I'm going to reword. AlaskaMountain (talk) 22:29, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Deleted mistaken and unverified statements
I deleted the following:

"A passing reference to the case occurs in Chuck Berry's song "Promised Land". The singer at one point relates, "We went through Charlotte to bypass Rock Hill/We never was a minute late." When Berry wrote the song this incident was only about a decade old, and needed only the allusion to the place to remind black listeners why the narrator wanted "to bypass Rock Hill.""

The correct lyrics to Chuck Berry's "Promised Land", are "Stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill". Anyone familiar with the song knows Berry is on a Greyhound bus in the fictitious song. A Greyhound bus driver would have a set travel plan which he wouldn't deviate from, and Greyhound has serviced Rock Hill for years.

Before I-77 was built, the Highway 21 bypass near Rock Hill was used for years by travelers to avoid driving through the city center. This is what Berry was obviously innocently referring to. There is no evidence that Berry was referring to the Batesburg incident in his 1964 song, written almost two decades after the fact.

Also, anyone familiar with SC knows that Rock Hill isn't even close to Batesburg. They're probably about a hundred miles apart as the crow flies, and roughly a two hour drive even on today's modern roads.

MindBodySoul 22:20, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Alive?
I noticed the article mentions that Shull is still alive and well, but i fail to spot anything mentioned about Woodard's status. Anyone got any info on that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Poposhka (talk • contribs) 18:48, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

The article has been updated since you posted. Shull died in 1997 at the age of 95. Woodard died in 1992 at the age of 73. MindBodySoul (talk) 07:13, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Well f*** Shull. Woodard might have recieved some of that treatment in a Japanese prison camp. 68.46.202.16 (talk) 15:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Reduce content for Welles
While Welles was very prominent, the article is supposed to be about Woodard. While Welles was eloquent, I thought too much content was devoted to him, and deleted a long quote in the second section that referred to his radio broadcasts about the attack. Truman's Exec. Order for desegregation was more important and far-reaching in terms of its effects, which might be discussed more thoroughly.Parkwells (talk) 14:58, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Summarized Lead more
Reduced some detail in Lead as it is supposed to be summary.Parkwells (talk) 14:58, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Which sheriff?
I note the town sits astride two counties. Which of the sheriffs attacked this poor man? Paul, in Saudi (talk) 13:46, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

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Statement needs better verification
The statement towards the end of the article “Woodard's "drunk and disorderly" conviction was vacated in 2018“ needs a better source as this is not mentioned in the linked CNN article. Also, does the statement actually mean he was formally acquitted of the crime? It’s not quite clear. — SimonEast (talk) 22:20, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Shull
In one place in the article Shull is called sheriff, in another place he is police chief. Which was it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.213.20.170 (talk) 03:37, 12 February 2020 (UTC)