Eugene Bullard

Eugene Bullard
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Publisher : NewSouth Books
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9781588382801
ISBN-13 : 158838280X
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Eugene Bullard by : Larry W. Greenly

Presents the life of the African-American pilot who flew missions for France during World War I, experienced racial discrimination in the United States, was beaten in the Peekskill Riots of 1949 and became a member of the French Legion of Honor.

Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris

Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 252
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0820328189
ISBN-13 : 9780820328188
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris by : Craig Lloyd

Although he was the first African American fighter pilot, Eugene J. Bullard is still a relative stranger in his homeland. An accomplished professional boxer, musician, club manager, and impresario of Parisian nightlife between the world wars, Bullard found in Europe a degree of respect and freedom unknown to blacks in America. There, for twenty-five years, he helped define the expatriate experience for countless other African American artists, writers, performers, and athletes. This is the first biography of Bullard in thirty years and the most complete ever. It follows Bullard's lifelong search for respect from his poor boyhood in Jim-Crow Georgia to his attainment of notoriety in Jazz-Age Paris and his exploits fighting for his adopted country, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Drawing on a vast amount of archival material in the United States, Great Britain, and France, Craig Lloyd unfolds the vibrant story of an African American who sought freedom overseas. Lloyd provides a new look at the black expatriate community in Paris, taking readers into the cabarets where Bullard rubbed elbows with Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, and even the Prince of Wales. Lloyd also uses Bullard's life as a lens through which to view the racism that continued to dog him even in Europe in his encounters with traveling Americans. When Hitler conquered France, Bullard was wounded in action and then escaped to America. There, his European successes counted for little: he spent his last years in obscurity and hardship but continued to work for racial justice. Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris offers a fascinating look at an extraordinary man who lived on his own terms and adds a new facet to our understanding of the black diaspora.

All Blood Runs Red

All Blood Runs Red
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Publisher : Harlequin
Total Pages : 405
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ISBN-10 : 9781488036033
ISBN-13 : 1488036039
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis All Blood Runs Red by : Phil Keith

The incredible story of the first African American military pilot, who became a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. Winner of the Gold Medal for Memoir/Biography from the Military Writers Society of America A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at the age of eleven to escape the racial hostility of his Georgia community. When his journey led him to Europe, he garnered worldwide fame as a boxer, and later as the first African American fighter pilot in history. After the war, Bullard returned to Paris a celebrated hero. But little did he know that the dramatic, globe-spanning arc of his life had just begun. All Blood Runs Red is the inspiring untold story of an American hero, a thought-provoking chronicle of the twentieth century and a portrait of a man who came from nothing and by his own courage, determination, gumption, intelligence and luck forged a legendary life. “A whale of a tale, told clearly and quickly. I read the entire book in almost one sitting.” —Thomas E. Ricks, The New York Times Book Review “All Blood Runs Red should be required reading for anyone who has ever dreamed big. A truly inspiring and uplifting story of courage and triumph, and an opus for an unsung hero.” —Nelson DeMille “Dazzling . . . This may be a biography, but it reads like a novel.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

All Blood Runs Red

All Blood Runs Red
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Publisher : eBookIt.com
Total Pages : 329
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781456612993
ISBN-13 : 1456612999
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis All Blood Runs Red by : Henry Scott Harris

Life and legends of Eugene Jacques Bullard, the first black American military aviator... from his childhood to WWI hero, 47 chapters of his life from the time he ran away from home, alone at the age of eight to find freedom and equality in France. This is based on a true life. It is a series of fictional interviews with a man whom I never met.

Flying Free

Flying Free
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Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Total Pages : 74
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0822597276
ISBN-13 : 9780822597278
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Flying Free by : Philip S. Hart

Surveys the history of black aviators, from the early black aviation community in Chicago in the 1920s through World War II to modern times.

The Black Swallow of Death

The Black Swallow of Death
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 0911721878
ISBN-13 : 9780911721874
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Swallow of Death by : P. J. Carisella

Fascinating story of Eugene Bullard - world's first black combat aviator.

Father of the Tuskegee Airmen, John C. Robinson

Father of the Tuskegee Airmen, John C. Robinson
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Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages : 345
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781597974875
ISBN-13 : 1597974870
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Father of the Tuskegee Airmen, John C. Robinson by : Phillip Thomas Tucker

Across black America during the Golden Age of Aviation, John C. Robinson was widely acclaimed as the long-awaited “black Lindbergh.” Robinson’s fame, which rivaled that of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, came primarily from his wartime role as the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force after Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. As the only African American who served during the war’s entirety, the Mississippi-born Robinson garnered widespread recognition, sparking an interest in aviation for young black men and women. Known as the “Brown Condor of Ethiopia,” he provided a symbolic moral example to an entire generation of African Americans. While white America remained isolationist, Robinson fought on his own initiative against the march of fascism to protect Africa’s only independent black nation. Robinson’s wartime role in Ethiopia made him America’s foremost black aviator. Robinson made other important contributions that predated the Italo-Ethiopian War. After graduating from Tuskegee Institute, Robinson led the way in breaking racial barriers in Chicago, becoming the first black student and teacher at one of the most prestigious aeronautical schools in the United States, the Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical School. In May 1934, Robinson first planted the seed for the establishment of an aviation school at Tuskegee Institute. While Robinson’s involvement with Tuskegee was only a small part of his overall contribution to opening the door for blacks in aviation, the success of the Tuskegee Airmen—the first African American military aviators in the U.S. armed forces—is one of the most recognized achievements in twentieth-century African American history.

Pathfinders

Pathfinders
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 343
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781613129739
ISBN-13 : 1613129734
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Pathfinders by : Tonya Bolden

Discover the lives of 16 extraordinary Black Americans in this engaging collection from Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner Tonya Bolden Untold numbers of Black men and women in America have achieved great things against the odds. In this insightful book, award-winning author Tonya Bolden commemorates the lives of sixteen Black individuals who dared to dream, take risks, and chart courses to success. They were Pathfinders. In these pages you will meet Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who was instrumental in putting U.S. astronauts on the moon; Venture Smith, an African man who was enslaved in America but later bought his own freedom; Richard Potter, a magician whose methods paved the way for entertainers like Harry Houdini; Sissieretta Jones, an opera singer who captivated audiences all over the world with her enchanting voice; James Forten, a powder boy then prisoner of war during the Revolution who grew up to be one of Philadelphia’s leading abolitionists and wealthiest citizens; James McCune Smith, the first Black university-trained physician in the United States; Mary Bowser, a spy during the Civil War; Allen Allensworth, town founder; Clara Brown, one of the first Black women to settle in what would become Colorado; Maggie Lena Walker, the first Black woman to run a bank; Charlie Wiggins, a race car driver; Eugene Bullard, a combat pilot in World War I; Oscar Micheaux, filmmaker; Jackie Ormes, cartoonist; Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, an economist and attorney who fought for civil rights; and Paul R. Williams, architect of luxury homes and many iconic buildings in Los Angeles.

Residential Apartheid

Residential Apartheid
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Publisher : CAAS Publications University of California Los Angeles
Total Pages : 336
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015034860315
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Residential Apartheid by : Robert Doyle Bullard

Harlem in Montmartre

Harlem in Montmartre
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 214
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520225374
ISBN-13 : 0520225376
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Harlem in Montmartre by : William A. Shack

Illuminates the expatriate African American community of jazz musicians that thrived in the Montmartre district of Paris in the '20s and '30s and helped turn the "city of lights" into the major jazz capital it remains today.