| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Eugene Bullard: Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris. By Craig Lloyd. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xvi, 217 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-8203-2192-3.)

By any measure, Eugene Jacques Bullard (1895–1969)—best remembered as the first African American fighter pilot—led a remarkable life. Born in Georgia, Bullard was inspired by his father's accounts of France as a country free from racial prejudice, and he stowed away on a merchant ship bound for Europe in 1912. Put ashore in Aberdeen, he went to Liverpool and London, working as a prizefighter and fairground attendant. Moving to France in 1913, Bullard joined the Foreign Legion on his nineteenth birthday and was wounded at Verdun. He subsequently graduated from aviation school and served with distinction in the French Flying Corps, but he was refused a transfer to the U.S. Army Air Corps after America entered the war in 1917. 1

Returning to Paris, Bullard was frequently involved in brawls with white Americans over incidents of racial prejudice. He became a jazz drummer and the owner-manager of a nightclub in Montmartre. His patrons and acquaintances included such Jazz Age luminaries as Sidney Bechet, Anita Loos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, Charles Chaplin, Josephine Baker, Mabel Mercer, and the Prince of Wales. In 1923, Bullard married into a prominent Parisian family and had two daughters (a son died in infancy). . . .

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