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On this day, February 29, 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_29• 1940 – For her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.