**From author Ronald Wimberly, creator of the viral comic Lighten Up,
comes a soaring graphic biography that casts new light on the first
African-American fighter pilot.
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On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow
South who was determined to find a place where a Black man would be
treated as a fellow human being. His search took him from rural Georgia
to the streets of Paris, from the vaudeville stage to the boxing ring,
and finally, from the muddy trenches to the open skies. In 1914, Bullard
joined the fight to defend France--and made history as the world's first
African American fighter pilot.
In this candid but sensitive portrait of Bullard, author Ronald Wimberly
balances the personal and the historical to interrogate concepts of
cynicism, idealism, fear, glory, and the pervasiveness of anti-Black
racism.