Leigh Whipper was the first African-American member of the Actors' Equity Association (1913) and a founding member of the Negro Actors Guild of America (1937). Whipper graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1895, and was admitted to the State Bar of South Carolina. However, he left the legal field soon afterwards to pursue an acting career. By […]
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