WTVD: Paul Tazewell is first Black man to win Oscar for best costume design for 'Wicked'
Paul Tazewell is the first Black man to win the Oscar for best costume design. He won an Academy Award on Sunday for his work on "Wicked." Tazewell was nominated for an Oscar in 2022 for costume ...
Paul Tazewell is first Black man to win Oscar for best costume design for 'Wicked'
Explanation: Omer Plessy was a man who was one eigth Black and he suited the State of Louisiana for having to sit in the Black Compartment in 1896,he contested the Segregation system that was set up after the Civil War with the so-called Jim Crow laws.