Julia to Dallas - Diahann Carroll, March 7, 2013

Diahann Carroll

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Before she played the glamorous Dominique Devereaux on the 1980s prime-time soap Dynasty, before her hilarious turn as Whitley's mom on A Different World, before she became a breast cancer survivor and activist, Carroll broke down barriers as the star of the show Julia, which ran from 1968 to 1971. The solidly middle-class Julia, a widow and mother who worked as a nurse in a doctor's office, was a far cry from the stereotypical roles that black women had previously played on the small screen.