page 13 - "Within a year, Charles Lindbergh would cross the ocean in his monoplane, and a white man in blackface would speak from the screen of a motion picture show."
Charles Lindbergh flew from Garden City, New York to Paris, France on May 20-21, 1927. He was the first to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. His plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, was a monoplane with a single set of wings (unlike the popular biplanes of the day with their two sets of wings).
On October 6, 1927, the movie "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson premiered and was the first full-length movie "in which spoken dialogue was used as part of the dramatic action." (It was not the first sound film) Read the history of minstrel shows to learn more about the use of blackface.
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