I would rather play a maid than work as a maid, she is supposed to have said. She died at 59 from breast cancer but couldn't be buried at Hollywood Cemetery, as was her wish. You know why.
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Beck Jones
The first African American to win the Oscar (Gone with the Wind), she was seated at a segregated side table at the ceremony and couldn't attend the movie premier because it was held in Atlanta. Her Oscar acceptance speech will reduce you to tears. Born on this day in 1893.
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