In 1939, McDaniel was cast as Mammy, Scarlett O’Hara’s enslaved maid in Gone with the Wind, which became ... bless you," she said during her acceptance speech. Despite her acclaim in film ...

What makes an exemplary Oscar speech ... best actress, Hattie McDaniel made Oscar history as the first Black honoree, earning ...

Everyone involved in Scarlett knew the risks—a follow-up to Gone With the Wind was inevitably going ... The character of Mammy, which earned Hattie McDaniel an Oscar during a segregated ceremony ...

This is the ideal place for Bobbie Hardy’s “Gone with the Wind” Museum ... One area prominently features Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy in the movie. Her performance in this role earned ...