Badass Birthdays
On this date, in 1893, 133 years ago, in Wichita Kansas, Hattie McDaniel was born.
Hattie McDaniel was an actress, comedian and singer-songwriter. She recorded 16 blues albums which she performed on TV and the radio. She appeared in 300 films, though she was only credited in 86 of them. She was the first black woman to sing on the radio.
However what makes her a badass is not only her performance as Mammy in Gone With The Wind, but the fact she received an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress, the first black performer to earn one. And it would be 24 years before another black person did so.
She died in 1952 of breast cancer at the age of 59.
POLT
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