In 1940 American actress Hattie McDaniel became the first Black person to win an Academy Award. She received the honor for best supporting actress for her performance in Gone with the Wind (1939). In the movie McDaniel played Mammy, an enslaved woman on the Georgia plantation of the O’Hara family.
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