Hattie mcdaniel net worth

HATTIE MCDANIEL was born on June 10, 1895 in Wichita, Kansas, the thirteenth child of Henry McDaniel, a Baptist minister and sometime minstrel performer, and his wife Susan Holbert, both former slaves.  When she was still very young, her parents moved the family to Denver, Colorado, a primarily white community, where Hattie grew up and demonstrated talents for singing and drama at school.  After two years of high school, Hattie abandoned her education for a career in show business, joining her father and brother Otis on the road as part of a touring minstrel company.  By 1925 Hattie was singing on the radio with "Professor George Morrison and his Melody Hounds," one of Denver's most respected black musical groups, and touring vaudeville circuits throughout the West.

The stock market crash of 1929 left Hattie stranded in Chicago, unemployed, and on the advice of a friend, she traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Sam Pick's Club Madrid.

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