QuickCheck: Did Dr Martin Luther King Jr keep Uhura on Star Trek?


Nichols (left) with Leonard Nimoy in a scene from an episode of Star Trek - The Original Series

EVER since the late '60s, an often-repeated story is that the civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King Jr had an instrumental role in persuading the late Nichelle Nichols to remain on Star Trek instead of resigning from the main cast of the series to do a Broadway play.

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