Eugene Bullard: World's First Black Fighter Pilot

2016 Silver Medal Winner YA Category, Military Writers Society of America; 2015 Booklist Top Ten Multicultural Nonfiction Book for Youth; 2014 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Gold Medal Winner; 2014 Best Young Adult Book NM/AZ Book Awards; 2014 Booklist Starred Review by American Library Association; recommendation by Voices of Youth Advocates (VOYA) 2014.A history-based comic strip called Flashbacks by artist Patrick Reynolds featured Eugene Bullard: World's First Black Fighter Pilot in "The Washington Post" and was published in 10 weekly installments from February 16 to April 20, 2014. See the entire series at www.redrosestudio.com/Cat%2020%20This%20wks%20ref.html.See the latest review of  Eugene Bullard: World's First Black Fighter Pilot at http://www.abqjournal.com/575163/entertainment/obscurity.htmlThis fast-paced and informative young adult biography tells the story of pioneering black aviator Eugene Bullard from his birth in 1895 to his combat experiences in both World War I and II and, finally, his return to America. Before the United States joined World War I, a few Americans fought on France's side, including Eugene Jacques Bullard, the grandson of a slave. Bullard had faced discrimination in the U.S. and even the threat of lynching, but while growing up, he had listened spellbound to his father's stories about how France treated everyone equally. He ran away from home at twelve and eventually made his way to France, where he joined the French Foreign Legion and later the Lafayette Flying Corps, to become the world's first black fighter pilot. All the medals he received, however, weren't enough to fend off the prejudice he still faced when he returned to the United States.