Trump supporters go to Star Trek convention. It didn't go well

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79. Yep. And Nichelle Nichols helped to lead the way.

I think she was the first African American actress to have such a visible or prominent role in any TV series back then. I found her absolutely mesmerizing and I remember noticing how she was the only girl in the main cast. I loved her character even more when I learned the back story of her name:

"Uhura" comes from the Swahili word uhuru, meaning "freedom". Nichols states in her 1994 book Beyond Uhura that the name was inspired by Robert Ruark's 1962 book Uhuru, which she had with her on the day she read for the part. When producer Robert Justman explained to Roddenberry what the word uhuru meant, he changed it to Uhura and adopted that as the character's name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyota_Uhura

Yep. In so many ways that series was WAY ahead of its time.