Hattie McDaniel pushed boundaries for the Black community ... In 1939, McDaniel was cast as Mammy, Scarlett O’Hara’s enslaved maid in Gone with the Wind, which became a career-defining role ...

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 ...