Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries "Roots," has died.
Gossett became the third Black Oscar nominee in the supporting actor category in 1983.
"More than anything, it was a huge affirmation of my position as a Black actor," he wrote in his 2010 memoir, "An Actor and a Gentleman."
"I knew too little to be nervous," Gossett wrote.
Gossett went to Hollywood for the first time in 1961 to make the film version of "A Raisin in the Sun."
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