Ken Gampu(1929-2003)

Suffered indignities as a black actor in South Africa despite his success in Hollywood. In 1975, he was cast as Lennie in a South African stage production of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," but was allowed to play the role only after the government gave him permission to share a stage with white actors.

I would walk through Joubert Park in Johannesburg and dream about sitting on one of those benches marked Europeans Only.