Hattie McDaniel: "I'd rather play a maid than be one," Hattie McDaniel once announced to a divided America. But as a new biography reveals, there was nothing make-believe about the racism she endured. Here, an exclusive sneak peek.(PRE view)

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Among the many trailblazers she acknowledged, there was one name missing from Halle Berry's acceptance speech as the first African American to win a Best Actress Oscar: Hattie McDaniel. In 1940 this actress from Wichita, Kansas, won Best Supporting Actress--the first Oscar of any type awarded to an African American--for her performance in Gone with the Wind as Mammy, the head woman of the Tara plantation and the nagging conscience of that self-centered white girl, Scarlett O'Hara. It's hard to remember today that Gone with the Wind was a battleground between those who desired ...

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