Biography

In 1924 Bullard took over Le Grand Duc where he booked talent ranging from Bricktop to Josephine Baker and Florence Jones. Jazz drummer Buddy Gilmore and Arthur Dooley Wilson (Sam in Casablanca (1942)) also were regular guest performers. Mabel Mercer subbed for Bricktop from time to time.

Brother was lynched by squatters on a peach farm left to him by his mother when he went to claim his inheritance.

On November 17, 1917, history's first African American fighter pilot, Corporal Eugene Bullard of the 85th Pursuit Squadron, Lafayette Flying Corps scored his first aerial victory, shooting down a German Fokker above the Western Front around Metz with his SPAD VII. His "co-pilot" was his capuchin monkey Jimmy.

In 1912 he was a stowaway on the German ship Marta Russ out of Norfolk, Virginia. They dropped him off in Aberdeen, Scotland.

In 1910 became a jockey while working for a band of gypsies in Phenix City, Alabama under the name "Jamesy".