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Charles Gilpin played the lead in Broadway’s first racially integrated production.

What was the first Broadway play to offer a racially integrated cast that featured a black actor in the lead role?

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That would be Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones, which featured Charles Gilpin as Brutus Jones. The year was 1920.

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