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Hattie McDaniel accepted her Oscar at a segregated "No Blacks" hotel in Los Angeles for her role in "Gone with the Wind."
She made history as the first Black American to win an Oscar. Sadly, all of the film's Black actors, including McDaniel, were prohibited from attending the film's premiere in 1939 at the Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.
Clark Gable, one of the film's stars, refused to attend if Hattie wasn't allowed, but she convinced him to go without her.
Even though McDaniel was eventually allowed into the hotel, she had to be escorted and was relegated to the back of the room, separated from her white co-stars.
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