Hatti McDaniels and Louise Beavers Die On The Same Day
This date, in 1962, marks the twin deaths of two Black Academy award-winning actresses’. Hatti McDaniel, 67, 'Gone With The Wind' and Louise Beavers, 62 'The Beulah Show' died.
They dragged you from the homeland, They chained you in coffles,
They huddled you spoon-fashion in filthy hatches,
They sold you to give a few gentlemen ease.
They broke you in like... STRONG MEN by Sterling A. Brown.