but even the ceremony was racially segregated. hattie mcdaniel, who plays mammy in the film one of the best supporting actress award. but at the ceremony itself, she was not seated in the front of the room. she was seated in the back of the room . black audiences then and now criticized mcdaniel for her portrayal. of mammy, which many said was a crude stereotype that put a smiling face on white supremacy. you don't care what folks is about to sam ada. i've told him, oh yeah, they're doing all is tele later, but awaited eaten funny folks like a bird. and i want you to go to me, it's don wilson, any like of the land and guy will at all been leading ashley with tony he lined the ago with a healthy appetite. it has an, as the heroic characters, essentially a civil war. soldiers from the south, from the confederacy and it defends a certain way of life. and mythologized the said oh, after gone with the wind, mcdaniel was stereotyped herself. she played versions of mammy in dozens of other films. she was later criticized in the black community for regularly accepting roles as domestic servant

winner, she paved the way for a new generation of black performers in hollywood. 2 years after hattie mcdaniels historic, when another pioneer made a masterpiece, that would change the language of american city. ah, oh oh. when orson welles made citizen kane, he was just 25 and had already revolutionized to art forms. wells had wowed broadway with an all black adaptation of shakespeare's macbeth. and his radio version of each g wells war, the world's was so realistic. it caused real world panic in the streets. for his hollywood debut, wells picked an epic tale of the rise and fall of newspaper magnate, charles foster kane. this one movie was enough to earn wells a place in cinema history and a place of honor at the academy award museum in los angeles. with wells singular, artistic vision. citizen kane changed the sound look and feel of sin. when wells arrived in hollywood, he demanded complete creative control. he would be in charge of everything even cast himself in the starring role. playing came from 20 year old upstart to 80 something paranoid recluse. he's the writer, he's the star, he's t