Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Ellas McDaniel.

After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center, also in Gainesville, and featured performances by his son and daughter, Anthony McDaniel and Evelyn Kelly, long-time background vocalist Gloria Jolivet, co-producer Scott " Skyntyte " Free, Diddley's touring band, The Debby Hastings Band, and guest artist Eric Burdon.

* Jeffrey McDaniel ( who was on numerous DC and California slam teams in the mid to late 1990s ) won a NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2003

The city was founded in 1850 by William McDaniel, on a part of the 1843 Mexican land grant Rancho Los Putos purchased from Manuel Cabeza Vaca.

In his 2005 book on the history of Manual, Mike McDaniel wrote that November 11, 1976 was " quite probably the worst day in the history of Manual.

Marlin Hurt's Beulah was also spun off, leading to both a radio and television show that would eventually star Hattie McDaniel and Ethel Waters.

Hattie McDaniel ( June 10, 1895October 26, 1952 ) was an American actress.

McDaniel was the first African-American to win an Academy Award.

In addition to having acted in many films, McDaniel was a professional singer-songwriter, comedian, stage actress, radio performer, and television star ; she was the first black woman to sing on the radio in America.

Hattie McDaniel was born June 10, 1895, in Wichita, Kansas, to former slaves.

Her father, Henry McDaniel, fought in the Civil War with the 122nd USCT and her mother, Susan Holbert, was a singer of religious music.

Another acting sibling of Hattie and Sam was actress Etta McDaniel.

When the stock market crashed in 1929, the only work McDaniel could find was as a washroom attendant and waitress at Club Madrid in Milwaukee.

Despite the owner's reluctance to let her perform, McDaniel was eventually allowed to take the stage and became a regular.

McDaniel did not think she would be chosen, because she was known for being a comic actress.

Clark Gable angrily threatened to boycott the Atlanta premiere unless McDaniel was allowed to attend, but McDaniel convinced him to attend anyway.

It was her role as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler ( Clark Gable ), that won McDaniel the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black American to win an Oscar.

The Oscar McDaniel took home was not the well-known tall Oscar.

On the same night that McDaniel became the first African American to be honored by the motion picture industry, she was also reminded of how far the industry and the country had yet to go in overcoming racism.

The following year, McDaniel was in Warner Bros ' Thank Your Lucky Stars, with Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis.

In its review of the film, Time wrote that McDaniel was one of the points of relief in an otherwise " grim study ," saying, " Hattie McDaniel, whose bubbling, blaring good humor more than redeems the roaring bad taste of a Harlem number called Ice Cold Katie.

McDaniel adopted the stage name Bo Diddley The origin of the name is somewhat unclear, as several differing stories and claims exist.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

McDaniel had befriended several of Hollywood's most popular stars, including Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland and Clark Gable, with the last two of whom she would star in Gone with the Wind.

Prattsville, then part of Saline County, was first settled by Elder Joab Pratt, a Baptist preacher, accompanied by several other families, with the surnames of Mayfield, Pumphrey, McDaniel, and Cobb, all arrived by wagon train from Bibb County, Alabama in 1841.

The group featured Lowery, Molla, Krummenacher and McDonald, along with several other musicians at various points, including guitarist David McDaniel, harmonica player Mike Zorn and violinist Daniel Blume.

Among his recordings are several in which he accompanied classic female blues singers such as Ida Cox, Hattie McDaniel, and Ma Rainey.

Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin while away waiting time by playing Botticelli in several novels by David McDaniel based on the 1960s television series The Man from U. N. C. L. E ..

Hattie McDaniel continued to play maids during the war years, in Warner Bros ' The Male Animal ( 1942 ) and United Artists ' Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), but her feistiness was toned down.

For the past few years the school has considered moving the ceremony to an alternate indoor location such as McDaniel College, but it has been voted down every year by the Senior class and their families.

D3hoops. com awarded Point Guard Antoine McDaniel (' 02 ) and Power Forward Jason Wiertel (' 02 ) a spot on their All-Decade Team, for the first ten years of D3hoops. com's existence ( 1997 – 2007 ).

Roy Face and Lindy McDaniel were relief pitchers who pitched for 21 years in the Major Leagues and were forkballers.

After graduation from Maryland, Byrd spent the next three years doing graduate work in law and journalism at George Washington University, Georgetown University, and Western Maryland College ( now known as McDaniel College ).

Portago was also married, to an older, American showgirl named Carroll McDaniel ( who later married Milton Petrie ).

From 1991 on, Steve Lukather would handle a majority of the vocals ( until Bobby Kimball's return in 1998 ), but some older songs originally sung by Kimball, Fergie Frederiksen, and Joseph Williams were put in the set list and sung by new backup singers Fred White ( who was replaced by John James in 1992 ), Jackie McGee ( who'd joined for the 1990 tour and was replaced by Donna McDaniel in 1992 ) and Jenny Douglas-McRae ( who'd also come aboard in 1990.

He had an older brother named Augustus McDaniel Buttram, as well as five other elder siblings.

At the time of her death, McDaniel would have had few options other than black institutions to place the Oscar.

From 1941 to 1947, the USO presented more than 400, 000 performances, featuring entertainers such as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Eubie Blake, Ann Sheridan, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Larry Adler, Ossy Renardy, Zero Mostel, James Cagney, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Doraine and Ellis, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, The Rockettes, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Curly Joe DeRita, The Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Brown, Joe E. Lewis, Ray Bolger, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and most famously, Bob Hope.

He riled crowds with his arrogant and colorful demeanor during interviews, especially with his less than politically correct nicknames for opponents such as Wahoo McDaniel ( whom he referred to as " the Drunken Indian "), and Mr. Wrestling ( whom he called " the Masked Varmint " and insisted that he was an escaped criminal ).

Lurlene McDaniel ( born 1944 in Philadelphia, PA ) is an American author who has written more than 70 young adult books.