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June 10, 2025

Actress Hattie McDaniel, the first Black to win an Academy Award for her role in "Gone with the Wind," was born in 1895 in Wichita, Kansas.

A Lesson In History

POSTED: January 14, 2009, 7:40 am

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Speakers honor Rev. Jesse Jackson during the opening reception of the 12th Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit.

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