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Background Info
Lucille Whipper, daughter of Joseph Simmons and Sarah Marie Washington, was born in Charleston on June 6, 1928. She attended the Avery Normal Institute where she graduated as Salutatorian, and later earned a BA degree in sociology and economics from Talladega College in Alabama. She received a master's degree in political science at the University of Chicago after being offered a scholarship in 1955. In, 1957 Whipper married a widower with 5 children, Reverend Dr. Benjamin J. Whipper, Sr, where the bore a child of their own. Lucille was always an outspoken and courageous person. Lucille voted for Harry Truman on her first ballot in 1948, while growing up in a segregated district of Charleston. She claims that blacks were admitted to the Democratic Party for the first time in 1948.

Awards
Whipper obtained many awards in her lifetime, such as an honorary doctorate degree from the College of Charleston(2008). She also received the Founders' Medal From the college as well(2020). In 2013 she received the Majorie Amos-Frazier Pacesetter Award by the West Ashley Democrats of Charleston County Democratic Party. She was also the 2015 recipient of the Commitment to Justice Award from the Center of Heirs’ Property Preservation. In 2017, Lucille was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Charleston branch of the NAACP, Legacy Award from the Sophia Institute, and the Lifetime Achievement Legacy Award by the Sister Summit Foundation.