Question: Philip Skinner created the role of what former Ku Klux Klan organizer in Appomattox?
Related documents: [0]  [DOC] Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen (born January 17, 1925) is a former Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He appealed against the verdict, but the sentence was upheld on January 12, 2007, by the Mississippi Supreme Court. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] Philip Skinner is an American bass-baritone who has sung leading roles in both North American and European opera houses. A veteran performer at San Francisco Opera, he made his debut there in 1985 and has gone on to sing over 35 roles with the company. In 2007, Skinner created the role of Edgar Ray Killen when San Francisco Opera staged the world premiere of the Philip Glass opera, "Appomattox", and in 2015 he created the role of Casaubon in Allen Shearer's "Middlemarch in Spring." He is a graduate of Northwestern University and received his master's degree from Indiana University, where he sang in the American premiere of Janáček's "The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon". [END] 
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Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen
Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen