Actress Hattie McDaniel ... In one fell swoop, she officially became the first African American to win an Oscar for her role as “Mammy,” a house slave for a wealthy White family, ...

Hattie McDaniel, who once lived in ... were relegated away from the event's white guests. ... led Hattie to her Oscar-winning portrayal of Mammy — a no-nonsense house servant in "Gone With the ...

How the Academy and Hattie McDaniel's family restored her legacy decades after her award went missing: 'It shows that she's still relevant. That she accomplished a lot in her career to have a vast ...

Hattie McDaniel, left, ... “It’s 100 percent overdue,” said Jill Watts, the author of “Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood.” “It was so meaningful historically as an award.

Hattie McDaniel was born in 1893 to formerly-enslaved parents in Wichita, Kansas, though some sources cite her year of birth as 1895. She was the youngest of 13 children.

McDaniel arrived for the 12th Academy Awards, held at the famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in The Ambassador Hotel, in a rhinestone-studded turquoise gown with white gardenias in her hair.

Hattie McDaniel’s missing Gone with the Wind Oscar is finally being replaced. ... ‘Oscar will never leave my house again’: 12 Oscar winners whose awards were stolen, ...

Hattie McDaniel, who once lived in ... were relegated away from the event's white guests. ... led Hattie to her Oscar-winning portrayal of Mammy — a no-nonsense house servant in "Gone With the ...

On the legacy of Hattie McDaniel, a history-making Oscar winner who sparked dreams yet to be realized 83 years later, only 9 more Black women have won Oscars, leaving broken but uncultivated ground.

Courtesy of History Colorado 2022 sketch of Hattie McDaniel by the artist adri. “Hattie used to babysit him, so technically, my dad was her child, because she never had kids of her own,” he said.

The Oscar — for McDaniel’s performance as “Mammy” in the 1939 big-screen epic “Gone With the Wind” — was the first awarded to a Black actor. It later disappeared.