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1895 – She was born on the 10th day of June this year in Wichita, Kansas, USA.
1910 – She was the only African American participant in a Women's Christian Temperance Movement event in which she won a gold medal for reciting a poem entitled "Convict Joe."
1920 - She joined George Morrison's "Melody Hounds" and received brilliant reviews.
1925 – She began singing on KOA, a Denver radio station.
1931 - She made her way to Los Angeles to join her brother Sam, and sisters Etta and Orlena.
1935 – Her classic performance as a slovenly maid in Alice Adams and a delightfully comic part as Jean Harlow's maid/traveling companion in China Seas, the latter her first film with Gable
1939 – She won Best Supporting Actress for the movie Gone with the Wind at the Academy Awards.
1942 - She had a dramatic role as a housewife whose son is framed in a hit-and-run accident.
1949 – She made her last film but was still quite active in her final years on radio and television, becoming the first major African-American radio star with her comedy series Beulah
1952 – She died on the 26th day of October this year in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
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