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🖖 In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. personally convinced Nichelle Nichols not to resign from Star Trek. He told her she was portraying a vital role model – one of the first Black women in a major TV role not playing a servant. Dr. King personally told her to stay because Uhura represented a future of racial equality during the Civil Rights Movement. [Read more] @googlefactss#StarTrek#CivilRights#NichelleNichols#MLK#RepresentationMatters