Flowers were placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of Nichelle Nichols Monday, two days after the actress best known for her landmark role of communications officer Lt. Nyota Uhura on 'Star Trek'' died at the age of 89.
Born Dec. 28, 1932 in the Chicago suburb of Robbins, Illinois where her father Samuel was mayor and raised in the South Side Chicago neighborhood of Woodlawn, Nichols was a successful stage actress and had toured as a singer with jazz legends Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton when she was cast as Uhura in"Star Trek,'' which debuted on NBC in 1966. It was one of the first examples of a prominent, nonstereotypical role for a Black woman on American television.
"I thought it was a Trekkie, and so I said, 'Sure.' I looked across the room and whoever the fan was had to wait because there was"He reached out to me and said, 'Yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan.' He said that 'Star Trek' was the only show that he, and his wife Coretta, would allow their three little children to stay up and watch.''
"'If you leave, that door can be closed because your role is not a Black role, and is not a female role; he can fill it with anybody even an alien.' At that moment, the world tilted for me. I knew I was something else.''"Star Trek'' star William Shatner on the Nov. 22, 1968, episode"Plato's Stepchildren'' was considered another TV landmark of the civil rights era, and drew some viewer protest.
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