Editing Hattie McDaniel (section)

==Early life and education==
McDaniel, the youngest of 13 children, was born in 1893 to formerly [[Slavery in the United States|enslaved]] parents in [[Wichita, Kansas]].<ref>{{Cite journal| last= Campbell| first= Edward D. C. |date= 1990 |title=Review of Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel| url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/40582221|journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly|volume=74|issue=3|pages=554–555|jstor=40582221|issn=0016-8297}}</ref>{{sfn|Watts|2005a|pp=5, 11, 16–17}}<ref>{{citation|title=Hattie McDaniel, daughter of Henry and Susan, age 2 (born 1893), Black, Wichita, Kansas | work=1895 Kansas State Census. Microfilm reels K-1 – K-169. Kansas State Historical Society |via=ancestry.com}}</ref> Her mother, Susan Holbert, was a singer of [[gospel music]], and her father, Henry McDaniel, fought in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] with the 122nd [[United States Colored Troops]].<ref name= "coloradovirtuallibrary">{{Cite web |url= https://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.org/digital-colorado/colorado-histories/20th-century/hattie-mcdaniel-actress/ |title= Hattie McDaniel: Actress| date=July 13, 2015 |website= coloradovirtuallibrary.org| publisher= Colorado Virtual Library| access-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref>{{sfn|Jackson|1993|p=4}}

In 1901, the family moved to [[Fort Collins, Colorado]]{{sfn|Watts|2005a|p=22}} where McDaniel lived with her parents and three siblings in a house at 317 Cherry Street. She attended Franklin School. McDaniel's father Henry preached and sang at church.<ref name="Jessen" /> Local historians successfully appealed to have a plaque installed on the front of the house to recognize it as a historically significant location. The family did not live a long time in the city.<ref name="Jessen">{{Cite news |last=Jessen |first=Kenneth |date=2022-02-18 |title=A look at Black history: Hattie McDaniel of 'Gone with the Wind' once lived in Fort Collins |url=https://www.reporterherald.com/2022/02/18/a-look-at-black-history-hattie-mcdaniel-of-gone-with-the-wind-once-lived-in-fort-collins/ |access-date=2024-03-19 |language=en-US}}</ref> They moved to [[Denver]], Colorado.{{sfn|Watts|2005a|p=22}} Hattie attended [[East High School (Denver, Colorado)|Denver East High School]] from 1908 to 1910. In 1910, she won a gold medal for reciting "Convict Joe", a Pre-Prohibition-era poem about the evils of alcohol, for a [[Women's Christian Temperance Union]] contest.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RSGhEUq5bp0C&pg=PA585| title= Icons of Black America: Breaking Barriers and Crossing Boundaries |first=Matthew |last= Whitaker| date=2011-03-09|publisher= ABC-CLIO |isbn= 9780313376436 |access-date=2020-05-17|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Carlton |first=Jackson |title=Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel |publisher=Madison Books |year=1993 |isbn=978-1-4617-3337-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hattie McDaniel, circa 1911. |url=https://collections.new.oscars.org/Details/Archive/70043581 |access-date=26 November 2024 |website=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Margaret Herrick Library}}</ref>

Her brother, [[Sam McDaniel]], played the butler in the 1948 [[Three Stooges]]' short film ''[[Heavenly Daze]]''. Her sister [[Etta McDaniel]] was also an actress.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wilson|first=Scott|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&q=Samuel+Rufus+McDaniel&pg=PA497|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons| edition= 3rd|date=2016-08-22| publisher= McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-7992-4|pages=497|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Three Stooges : Heavenly Daze (1948) – Jules White {{!}} Cast and Crew | work= AllMovie.com |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-three-stooges--heavenly-daze-v139447/cast-crew|language=en-us|access-date=2020-08-23}}</ref>