My Amazon Book Review
Courage Under Fire
A tremendous breakdown of the peoples, circumstances and legal cases that indirectly led to the 1954 landmark civil rights supreme court decision of Brown vs Board of Education (school desegregation).
The story begins with one colored army veteran suffering racial discrimination when unjustly beaten and blinded by a southern police chief. From this one tragic thread the author creatively weaves together a multi-colored quilt of facts and fallout that ripple their way onto the highest stage of American justice.
Learning about the courageous civil rights efforts of a president (Truman), judges, supreme court justices, lawyers and many other professionals (Orson Welles), I still found the most courageous of all to be the blinded colored veteran Sgt. Issac Woodard, who moved on with his life and never let the brutal injustice he suffered define him as a man.
One proud colored man in uniform helped encourage so many others to stand up and do what is expected of good leading men to do; uphold their oath to protect the constitutional laws of a country and when in doubt challenge what those laws stand for.
If you're man enough to take an oath, be man enough to defend it when under fire.
NPR - All Things Considered
Daily Beast - Blinded by Justice
Face to Face - Remembering Isaac Woodard
Briggs vs Elliott
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