Judge Julius Waties Waring
Clip: Season 33 Episode 3 | 1m 7s
Judge Waring became an unexpected civil rights champion with rulings on pivotal cases.
Julius Waties Waring presided over the trial of a white police chief who brutally beat and blinded Black soldier Isaac Woodard in 1946. He became an unexpected civil rights champion with rulings on several pivotal cases in the 1940s.
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Judge Julius Waties Waring
Clip: Season 33 Episode 3 | 1m 7s
Julius Waties Waring presided over the trial of a white police chief who brutally beat and blinded Black soldier Isaac Woodard in 1946. He became an unexpected civil rights champion with rulings on several pivotal cases in the 1940s.
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In 1946, a local police chief savagely beat and permanently blinded a Black army sergeant. (30s)
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