Editing Hubert Julian (section)

==1920s==
In 1921, Julian left [[Montreal]] for good and moved to [[Harlem]]. Once there he came under the influence of the charismatic [[Marcus Garvey]] and joined the [[Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League|Universal Negro Improvement Association]]. This new "Garveyvite" soon adopted a new persona, rechristening himself "Lieutenant Hubert Julian" of the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]]. Julian had a tailor fashion for him a fake military uniform in order to push his new narrative. On 3 September 1922, Julian performed his first parachute jump at [[Roosevelt Field (airport)|Curtiss Field]] on [[Long Island]]; the event was headlined with a flight by [[Bessie Coleman]]. Julian would make one more jump that year before teaming up with aviator [[Clarence Chamberlin]] who, in addition to teaching his new business partner how to truly handle an airplane, flew him up above Harlem where the Trinidadian parachuted several times, the most famous moment coming when he wore a crimson jumpsuit while playing "[[Runnin' Wild (1922 song)|Runnin' Wild]]" on a saxophone. This would be the stunt which caused [[H. Allen Smith]] to dub Julian "the Black Eagle of Harlem". Julian also parachuted over Harlem while playing a gold-plated saxophone in October 1923.<ref name="The Studio Museum in Harlem">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/harlemrenaissanc0000unse_f3u5|title=Harlem Renaissance : art of Black America|date=1987|publisher=The Studio Museum in Harlem|others=Driskell, David C., Lewis, David Levering, 1936–, Willis, Deborah, 1948–, Studio Museum in Harlem.|isbn=0810910993|location=New York|oclc=13945412|url-access=registration}}</ref>

In 1924, Julian, along with Chamberlin, began toying with the idea of performing a [[transatlantic flight]], with stops in Florida, the West Indies, Central America, Brazil, and [[Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago|Saint Paul's Rock]] (in the mid-Atlantic), from [[New York City]] to [[Liberia]].<ref name="The Studio Museum in Harlem"/> An old [[seaplane]] was purchased and refitted for the proposed flight; Julian dubbed it the ''Ethiopia''. On 4 July, with a crowd of thousands gathered at the banks of the [[Harlem River]] to witness his takeoff, Julian boarded his plane, after having UNIA members help raise some last-minute funds to pay off his investors, and soared into the sky. A few minutes would pass before Julian realized that one of his plane's pontoons had filled up with water, throwing the aircraft's weight off balance. Unable to regain control, Julian crashed into [[Flushing Bay]].

Julian would try twice more to pilot a transatlantic flight before the 1920s came to end. The first of these two attempts ended when his plane's wings were vandalized by unknown assailants while they were being stored in [[Happyland Park]]. The second, and final, attempt saw New York State Senator [[A. Spencer Feld]] take the helm of the endeavor, but after [[Amelia Earhart]] crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]], Julian felt dismayed at the prospect of performing something that had now been done by more than a handful of others and canceled the project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/the-black-eagle-of-harlem-95208344/|title=The Black Eagle of Harlem|work=Air & Space Magazine}}</ref>