Actress Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award on this day in history, Feb. 29, 1940. McDaniel won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as ...

Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Before she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she made her ...

Hattie McDaniel arrived at her audition for the role of Gone With the Wind’s Mammy wearing a maid’s uniform. It wasn’t a costume — she was headed to work as a housekeeper later that day. She would, of ...

On July 10th The Margaret Mitchell House Museum in Atlanta reopened after four years, honoring the place where Mitchell in 1925-1931 wrote the critical and commercial success, Gone with the Wind ...

Author Margaret Mitchell published the American classic novel "Gone with the Wind" on this day in history, June 30, 1936. The 1,000-page novel, set in Georgia during the Civil War and in the ...