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Keith, Phil,
1946-
All blood runs red
[Large Type Book] :
the legendary life of Eugene Bullard--boxer, pilot, soldier, spy /
Phil Keith with Tom Clavin.
Large print ed.
[Farmington Hills, Mich :
Thorndike Press/Gale,
2019.
483 p. (large print) :
ill. ;
23 cm.
Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir
Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-476).
"The incredible story of the first African American military pilot, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer 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"--Provided by the publisher.
20191119.
Bullard, Eugene Jacques
1895-1961.
African American fighter pilots
France
Biography.
Fighter pilots
France
Biography.
World War, 1914-1918
France
Aerial operations.
World War, 1939-1945
France
Aerial operations.
Race discrimination
United States
History
20th century.
Clavin, Thomas.
Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir.
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