Hattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award

Date: 29 Feb 1940
Updated: 22 Aug 2019

29 February 1940 Hattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award Hattie McDaniels becomes the first African American woman to win an Academy Award for her best supporting actress in the film Gone with the Wind. The film was about the American South during the American civil war of 1861-1865.

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