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Hattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award

Hattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award

Date
29 Feb 1940
Updated
22 Aug 2019
Hattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award

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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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Hattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011614

South African History Online (2011) 'Hattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011614 (Accessed: 3 August 2026).

South African History Online, Hattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011614, (accessed 3 August 2026).

"Hattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011614. Accessed 3 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Hattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011614.

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