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Richard Gergel

Richard Gergel
Richard Gergel is a United States district judge who presides in the same courthouse in Charleston, South Carolina, where Judge Waring once served. A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Judge Gergel earned undergraduate and law degrees from Duke University. With his wife, Dr. Belinda Gergel, he is the author of In Pursuit of the Tree of Life: A History of the Early Jews of Columbia, South Carolina. His book Unexampled Courage:The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring is available now.


An Account of the Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard by the Police Officer, Lynwood Shull

A Decorated WWII Veteran Returns to the Jim Crow South
January 22, 2019  By Richard Gergel
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