Speaker Series - U.S. District Court Judge Richard Gergel

The Daniel Island Community Speaker’s Series will resume on Wednesday evening, November 15, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the ballroom at the Daniel Island Club.  Our speaker will be U.S. District Court Judge Richard Gergel.  Judge Gergel has presided over the trial of Dylann Roof the white supremist convicted of murder in the Mother Emanuel church shooting in 2017.  But Judge Gergel cannot talk about that case.  What he will discuss is his book about Judge J. Waties Waring entitled “Unexampled Courage”.  For a man most of us have never heard of, Waring was a giant in the civil rights movement.

On the day he was discharged from the Army at the end of World War II Sergeant Isaac Woodard boarded a Greyhound bus to his home in Winnsboro, S.C.  White and black soldiers on the bus were celebrating by sharing a bottle of whiskey.  Woodward argued with the…