By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Hattie McDaniel was the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for her role as “Mammy” in Gone With the Wind, in 1939. However, success did not beat segregation at that time. McDaniel could not even attend the Gone With the Wind premiere, held at an all-White theatre […]
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