Can You Pass This Quiz About Hollywood’s Golden Age?

Jenna Goldberg|Entertainment|5 Sep 2019

This star was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor

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Retry Correct Incorrect In 1964 Sir Sidney Poiteir became the first black actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor. Since then he’s also been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
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This star was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor

  • Sidney Poitier
  • Louis Gossett Jr
  • James Earl Jones
  • John Amos
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