"Black History Month" Topic

Here are some not so well know Afro-American historical figures and their accomplishments:

Eugene Jacques Bullard is considered to be the first African-American military pilot to fly in combat, and the only African-American pilot in World War I. Ironically, he never flew for the United States:

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Sgt Willaim Carney, first Afro-American MOH awardee
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On June 15, 1921, Bessie Coleman received the first pilot's license issued to an African American woman and to a Native American woman:
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Navy's first black pilot, Ensign Jesse Brown:
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I think we are all already familiar with the civil rights struggles and racism these fine people had to go through so I don't think we need any lessons. Lets just honor them and maybe add to the list.

Wolfhag

All are heroes who deserve being remembered. Thanks for the links.

Heard of the first two; third and fourth are new to me.

Bass Reeves;legendary lawman.

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Some references for a paper I wrote in college:

Billington, Monroe and Roger d. Hardaway, eds. African Americans on the Western Frontier.
Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1998.

Durham, Philip and Everett L. Jones. The Negro Cowboys. New York: The Cornwall Press, 1965.

Katz, William. The Black West. New York: Broadway Books, 2005.

Savage, Sherman W. Blacks in the West. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1976.

Taylor, Quintard. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West
1528-1990. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998.

Why Eugene Bullard's life story has not been made into a film is a mystery to me. His career as a WW1 aviator is only one part of a story that defies belief.

The story of Ensign Jesse Brown's death in Korea in 1950 should be read by every American. Go here – link

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