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An Oscar should have brought new opportunities Hattie's way, but it didn't. "Any work she could find was just playing a maid, servant or slave," explains author ReShonda Tate, whose new novel, The Queen of Sugar Hill (out Jan. 30), dramatizes the events of Hattie's difficult but inspirational life.
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