William D. Chappelle was @DaveChappelle’s great-grandfather. He was enslaved at birth in 1857 in South Carolina and went on to become educated and President of Allen University, a HBCU in SC. He was also the 37th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. #SNL

March 13, 1918, Bishop Chappelle led a delegation of bishops from the AME Church to meet President Woodrow Wilson at the White House. The delegation came to protest the mounting wave of anti-black violence and hysteria accompanying the Great Migration. Wilson took no action.

Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina was founded in 1870 by ministers of the AME Church — named after AME Church founder Bishop Richard Allen. Bishop Chappelle was President of the HBCU in the late 1890s and helped build it into a respectable educational institution.