Originally posted in 2010. Like so many in this section of our annals, Hattie McDaniel may be described as an early pathbreaker now stigmatized for embodying a stereotypical role — in her case, the quintessential Mammy. The first African American to win an Oscar (for 1939′s Gone with the Wind), and the first African American woman […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:52AM on June 10, 2013