On Sunday night, Viola Davis made history.

The "How to Get Away with Murder" star became the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

And for her moving award speech, Davis, 50, started by quoting abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

"In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how.

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