Fay Jackson was a journalist and a public relations expert. Fay Jackson (left) and Dr. Vada Somerville on set during the filming of Bright Road with child actors Barbara Ann Sanders (in the role of Tanya), and Philip Hepburn (in the role of C. T. Young), with a stand of trees in the background. Bright Road is a 1953 film adapted from the Christopher Award-winning short story "See How They Run" by Mary Elizabeth Vroman. It was directed by Gerald Mayer and features a nearly all-black cast, including Dorothy Dandridge (Jane Richards) and Harry Belafonte (Mr. Williams, School Principal). Filmed at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City. Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
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African American journalists African American actresses African American dentists African American actors African American civil rights workers Sanders, Barbara Ann Hepburn, Philip Jackson, Fay M., 1902-1979 Somerville, Vada, 1885-1972 Bright Road (Motion picture) 1953
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