Meet Hattie McDaniel, The First Black Person To Win An Oscar In Jim Crow America
Hattie McDaniel believed she was making new opportunities for people of color in the industry, but civil rights activists criticized her for the stereotypical roles she accepted. In forties Hollywood , Hattie McDaniel had made history . She come along in more than 300 films and starred in her own radio serial , Beulah , and became the first black somebody ever to receive an Oscar . But McDaniel was also a controversial figure in her time and often on the receiving end of a series of criticisms for her participation in films that depicted antiblack impersonation of African Americans ....