Eugene bullard biography movies

First Black French and American military pilot (–)

Eugene Jacques Bullard (born Eugene James Bullard; October 9, – October 12, ) was one of the first African-American military pilots,^[1][2] although Bullard flew for France, not the United States.

Eugene Jacques Bullard (born Eugene James Bullard; October 9, – October 12, ) was one of the first African-American military pilots.

Filmmaker Stephen Ives introduces Eugene Bullard, a young boy from who escaped the poverty and racism of Eugene Bullard: History's First Black.

Bullard tells the extraordinary life of Eugene Bullard, the first African American fighter pilot, known as the Black Swallow, who proudly served during World.

Eugene Bullard is a minute TV documentary directed by Claude Ribbe (based on his book Eugene Bullard) and produced by Ortheal with the participation of the.

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Bullard was one of the few black combat pilots during World War I, along with William Robinson Clarke, a Jamaican who flew for the Royal Flying Corps, Domenico Mondelli&#;[it] from Italy, and Ahmet Ali Çelikten of the Ottoman Empire.

Also a boxer and a jazz musician, he was called "L'Hirondelle noire" in French (literally "Black Swallow").

All Blood Runs Red, a biography of Bullard by Phil Keith and Tom Clavin, was published in by Hanover Square Press.

Early life

Bullard was born in Columbus, Georgia, the seventh of 10 children born to William (Octave) Bullard, a Black man from Stewart County, Georgia, and Josephine ("Yokalee") Thomas, a Black woman said to be of African-American a