Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen

HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 11: Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in film in 1939 as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid, in the film Gone with the Wind. McQueen never married or had any children. She lived in New York in the summer months and in Augusta, Georgia during the winter.In July 1983, a jury awarded McQueen $60,000 in a judgment stemming from a lawsuit she filed against two bus terminal security guards. McQueen sued for harassment after she claimed the security guards accused her of being a pickpocket and a vagrant while she was at a bus terminal in April 1979. Photographed in a studio, December 11, 1987 Hollywood, Los Angeles, California ( Photo by Paul Harris/Getty Images )