It was the evening of February 29, 1940. The 12th Annual Academy Awards were scheduled to be held at the famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, the same facility ...

At the Oscars ... actress award approached the stage and finally revealed the winner: Hattie McDaniel. In one fell swoop, she officially became the first African American to win an Oscar for ...

Actress Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award ... While McDaniel's Oscars win was a historic first for the Academy, she almost did not get to attend the ceremony.

Hattie McDaniel ... circa 1945. McDaniel won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in 'Gone With The Wind', making her the first African-American to win an Academy Award.

NEW YORK — Hattie ... actress Oscar in 1939 for "Gone With the Wind" is one of the most important moments in Academy Award history. McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar ...

Hattie McDaniel, left, was given the Motion Picture Academy award for the best performance of an actress in a supporting role in 1939 for her work as “Mammy” in the film version of “Gone ...

NEW YORK — Hattie ... actress Oscar in 1939 for “Gone With the Wind” is one of the most important moments in Academy Award history. McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar ...

Hattie McDaniel was an African-American ... Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she made her home in Colorado. McDaniel was the first Black person to be nominated and then win an ...