The 41-year-old actress’ involvement in the ball, which has long been accused of being racist, elitist and exclusionary, became a trending topic on Twitter…
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Actress Ellie Kemper is being raked over the social media equivalent of the coals for winning a 1999 pageant sponsored by a St. Louis-based organization that has been accused of denying membership to the city’s Black and Jewish populations.
What To Know: Kemper was a 19-year-old Princeton University student when she was presented as a debutante at the 1999 Veiled Prophet Ball, an annual event sponsored by the Veiled Prophet Organization. During the ball, Kemper was named the Veiled Prophet Queen of Love and Beauty.
According to a 2014 article in The Atlantic, the Veiled Prophet Organization was founded as a secret society in 1878 by Charles Slayback, a veteran of the Confederate military who gained post-Civil War prominence as a grain industry executive.
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Ellie Kemper, the actress best known for her roles in The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, is facing criticism after a photo resurfaced of her participating in a pageant ball believed to have ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
The 1999 photo shows the 41-year-old actress being named the queen of the Veiled Prophet Ball in in St. Louis. In 1878, the ball was created when grain executive and former Confederate cavalryman Charles Slayback called a meeting of local elites. The planned secret society formed into as a fair honoring the ritual of Mardi Gras and has been tied to allegations of White supremacy.
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