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Sad end of Butterfly McQueen, the ‘Gone With the Wind’ star who couldn’t attend film’s premiere for being Black

Thelma “Butterfly” McQueen’s plan was to become a nurse, but a teacher asked her to take up dancing, which she eventually did. Born in Tampa, Florida on January 8, 1911, McQueen moved to Harlem, New York, where she joined a Harlem theater group after having studied nursing in the Bronx. …

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