Duke Ellington
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell was a newspaper reporter and author in Atlanta. She created her famous 1936 work, Gone with the Wind, which sold a million copies within six months, even at the height of the Great Depression. Mitchell's story described the life of Georgia plantation owners before, during, and after the Civil War. Her 1936 book won a Pulitzer Prize, and went on to be made into a movie in 1939. The movie won 10 Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for best supporting actress awarded to Hattie McDaniel. She was the first African-American to ever win an Academy Award.
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Jesse Owens
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Jesse Owens, an African American who was a successful track and field athlete at Ohio State University, held several world records. He, along with several other African American athletes, was selected to represent the United States at the Olympic games held in Berlin, Germany. There, Jesse Owens earned four gold medals. While Jesse Owens was running at the Olympic games in Berlin was also the same time that Adolf Hitler's Nazi party was coming into power in Germany, and they believed in racial superiority (those that were not white and Christian were less than them). Owen's success as an African American earned him hero status when he returned to the United States, but even though he returned as a hero, he still faced racial discrimination.
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