Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I whakaako a Berkley i El Centro, California i a ia e taitama ana. Ko ia te kaitiaki whaiaro me te kaikorero ki te kaiwhakaari Hattie McDaniel mai i te 1936 ki te 1951. E kiia ana kua awhina ia i a McDaniel ki te tuhi i tana Oscars 1940
te kōrero whakaaetanga. I mahi a ia mō Ethel Waters i tētahi tūranga ōrite. Na tana pou, "Hollywood in Bronze", ko ia "te kairipoata Black Hollywood tuatahi kua whakamanahia".