Bettmann via Getty Images In 1940, after appearing in Gone With the Wind, Hattie McDaniel became the first Black actor to win an Oscar. She gave the Best Supporting Actress award to Howard ...

For decades, Hattie McDaniel's Oscar has been missing. McDaniel was the first African American to be nominated for and win an Academy Award for her supporting role as Mammy in 1939's "Gone With ...

DENVER — 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 ...

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