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“Hattie McDaniel accepting her Oscar in a segregated “”No Blacks”” hotel in Los Angeles for her role in Gone with the Wind. She is the first Black American to win an Oscar.⁣

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⁣All of the film’s black actors, including McDaniel, were barred from attending the film’s premiere in 1939, which was aired at the Loew’s Grand Theatre on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, …

“Hattie McDaniel accepting her Oscar in a segregated “”No Blacks”” hotel in Los Angeles for her role in Gone with the Wind. She is the first Black American to win an Oscar.⁣ Read More
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In the spring of 1909, a father named Jack Abernathy stood in his Oklahoma yard and watched his two sons prepare for a journey that would horrify any parent today.

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Bud, age nine, checked the saddle straps one final time. Temple, barely five years old, climbed onto his pony Geronimo from a tree stump because he was too small to …

In the spring of 1909, a father named Jack Abernathy stood in his Oklahoma yard and watched his two sons prepare for a journey that would horrify any parent today. Read More
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She chased her dog into the misty Oregon woods—and vanished. Search teams found only a small yellow ribbon tied to a pine branch, as if she’d left it behind to say, “I was here… keep looking.”

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In the spring of 1991, 6-year-old Lily Ann Carter lived with her family in a small Oregon town surrounded by deep green forest and fog that rolled in like breath …

She chased her dog into the misty Oregon woods—and vanished. Search teams found only a small yellow ribbon tied to a pine branch, as if she’d left it behind to say, “I was here… keep looking.” Read More