Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Before she won an Academy Award for Best ...

Hattie McDaniel, the first Black actor to win an Oscar, started her career path to celebrity stardom in Colorado. Her family moved to Fort Collins in the early 1900s and then to Denver, where she ...

SeeHer Story airs every week on PEOPLE.com and @PeopleTV social handles Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has ...