Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakaako a Berkley i El Centro, California hei wahine taitamariki. Ko ia te kaitiaki whaiaro me te kaikorero ki te kaiwhakaari Hattie McDaniel mai i te 1936 ki te 1951. E kīia ana i āwhina ia i a McDaniel ki te tuhi i tōna
He kōrero mō te whakawhiwhinga o te 1940 Oscars. 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".