Educate Yourself: 15 Black Women In History You Probably Don’t Know
- By
Deron Dalton
Ethel Waters
was the second black actress nominated for an Academy Award in best supporting for Pinky in 1950. She was also the first black actress to star in her own TV program (“The Ethel Waters Show” on NBC), becoming the first black actress nominated for an Emmy award for “Route 66” in 1962.
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