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First African-American Pilot a War Hero During WWI

Posted on February 2, 2012 by jtozer

From 29 Days of African American History, www.af.mil FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) - After watching his father narrowly escape a lynching in early 20th century Georgia, Eugene Bullard would escape the confines of racial tensions and a segregated country to …
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