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The story behind 'Star Trek' actress Nichelle Nichols' iconic interracial kiss

  • Written by Matthew Delmont, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College
The story behind 'Star Trek' actress Nichelle Nichols' iconic interracial kissThe kiss aired one year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned laws banning interracial marriage.CBS via Getty Images

On a 1968 episode of “Star Trek,” Nichelle Nichols, playing Lt. Uhura, locked lips with William Shatner’s Capt. Kirk in what’s widely thought to be first kiss between a Black woman and white man on American...

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