Black History Album: The Way We Were

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Dorothy Dandridge with Harry Belafonte in a scene from Bright Road, a 1953 film adapted from the Christopher Award-winning short story “See How They Run” by Mary Elizabeth Vroman. Directed by Gerald Mayer and featuring a nearly all-black cast, the film stars Dorothy Dandridge as an idealistic first-year elementary school teacher trying to reach out to a problem student. The movie is also notable as the first feature film appearance by Harry Belafonte, who co-stars as the principal of the school.

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