Conversation so far:
Did the McDaniel Oscar go missing?
The whereabouts of McDaniel's Oscar are currently unknown.
When did it go missing?
In 1992, Jet magazine reported that Howard University could not find it and alleged that it had disappeared during protests.
Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
In 1998, Howard University stated that it could find no written record of the Oscar having arrived at Howard.
When did McDaniel win the Oscar?
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Has anyone searched for the missing Oscar?
In November 2011, W.
B.
Carter, of the George Washington University Law School, published the results of her year-and-a-half-long investigation into the Oscar's fate.
What were the results?
she argued that the Oscar was likely returned to Howard University's Channing Pollack Theater Collection between the spring of 1971 and the summer of 1973.
If it was returned, why can't it be found?
she suggested, inadequate storage or record-keeping in a time of financial constraints and national turbulence may be blamed.
What else was interesting in the article?
In 2007, an article in the Huffington Post repeated rumors that the Oscar had been cast into the Potomac River by angry civil rights protesters in the 1960s.

Question: Was there any truth to that?
Self-contained rewrite: Was there any truth to the Huffington Post article?