Julia (television)
Julia was a groundbreaking
television series which was the first to show an
African American main character in a non-stereotypical role. In the past, other series, such as
Beulah, had had the main characters as maids, or other subservient roles. In
Julia, in
1968, star
Diahann Carroll played a single mother who was a nurse in a doctor's office. The doctor was played by Lloyd Nolan, and Julia's romantic interests by
Paul Winfield and Fred Williamson. The series went off the air in
1971.
