Eugene Bullard could send people to the canvas in the boxing ring, he could fly planes when few people could, he had battlefield combat skills. But because he was a Black man in the America of the early 20th century, his home country got to know little about him. Tom Clavin, one of his biographers in the book All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard—Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy is interviewed is 2019.