Indian Actors Association Indian Actors Association. The Indian Actors Workshop was another group built on the foundation of the Indian Actors Association. Founded by Jay Silverheels, best known for playing Tonto on "The Lone Ranger", the Indian Actors Workshop trained Indians for roles in film and television. Similar groups continued to form well into the 1980s. The Indian Actors Association was able to function as a support group and provided subsistence funds for out of work Indians. They were able to raise these funds through membership dues, powwows, and performances for local clubs and organizations. Indian Actors Association The Indian Actors Association was
P. Jay Sidney for leading a one-man crusade to get African Americans equal representation in television programming and commercials, he wrote letters, picketed, favored boycotts, taped interactions with television executives, lobbying against de facto segregation. In 1962, Sidney testified before the United States House of Representatives. P. Jay Sidney P. Jay Sidney (April 8, 1915 – September 30, 1996) was an American screen actor, who was also known as Jay P. Sidney. Although obscure today, he was a prominent activist who fought for equal representation of African Americans in American entertainment. Sidney Parhm Jr. was born in Norfolk, Virginia, to a poor family.