12. Television began to reflect the changes tides, with featuring black professionals.
In 1968, Diane Carroll starred in Julia, playing a nurse. In 1984, America fell in love with the Huxtables. Star, Bill Cosby played a doctor and his TV wife, Phylicia Rashad, was a lawyer on The Cosby Show. Americans tuned in to see that their problems were human problems and not race specific.
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