Carroll was the star of 'Julia' which ran for 86 episodes on NBC between 1968 and 1971. It was a groundbreaking show, marking the first time an African American was cast as the lead of a show in a role other than that of a servant.
Carroll was the star of"Julia" which ran for 86 episodes on NBC between 1968 and 1971. She played a nurse named Julia Baker who was raising a young son on her own following the death of her serviceman husband in the Vietnam War.
And on"Star Trek," Nichelle Nichols' Lt. Uhura was the Enterprise's chief communications officer, though she was still in a supporting role to William Shatner's Capt. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock and DeForest Kelley's Dr. McCoy. “They said it was a fantasy,” Carroll recalled in 1998. “All of this was untrue. Much about the character of Julia I took from my own life, my family.”
“The needs of the white writer go to the superhuman being. At the moment, we are presenting the white Negro. And he has very little Negro-ness.”It was such a new concept, an African American actor as the show's star, that the studio's makeup department at first did not have any cosmetics for black women.
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