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Eugene Jacques Bullard and the Paris Jazz Age (Pt. 2)

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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A Black American Boxer Gets Knocked Out

Some reporters seem to have thought bullard was the dixie kid. There's just te whole very irritating confusion of two different black men and kind of conflating them in this reporting. Here's the thing, this was not an isolated incident. One of the sources used for this episode described bullard as never passing up the chance to punch a racist. In 19 23, bullard filed a libel suit against the french edition of the chicago tribune,. The article also falsely claimed that once bullard was trained as a pilot, that he had refused to fly.

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