Hattie McDaniel was the first Black person to be nominated for and win an Oscar for her supporting role as Mammy in the 1939 film GONE WITH THE WIND.

Shortly before her death from breast cancer in 1952, she asked that the Oscar be moved from her home to Howard University in Washington, but her statuette disappeared. Now, more than 50 years later, her request was honored when the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences replaced the award.

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