Born February 15, 1902 in Dallas, TX via The BlackPast.org "Fay Jackson chose journalism as the primary outlet for her creative activism. Jackson also covered politics and race issues as political editor for Charlotta Bass’s California Eagle. When Leon Washington and Loren Miller started a competing paper, The Los Angeles Sentinel, she joined her friends to make the young paper a popular alternative to the Eagle. Jackson also wrote for the Chicago Defender and the Association of Negro Publishers, who hired her as a Hollywood correspondent, focusing on African American movie stars such as Clarence Muse and Bill Robinson. She also wrote about non-African American figures in Hollywood such as the actress Mae West. In 1937 the ANP sent Jackson as its representative to London to cover the coronation of King George VI. While in Europe, she interviewed Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, singer Josephine Baker, and writer H.G. Wells." #BlackHistoryMoments #BlackHistory #FayJackson
