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The date and program of the first interracial kiss on television is a much debated topic. In many parts of the world social stigma and legislation (such as anti-miscegenation laws) have hindered relations between people from different groups . The first kiss on television has been discussed in the context of this social stigma.
Identifying the first interracial kiss on television is a subject of debate. Historians noted that interracial kisses between blacks and whites were depicted on British television during live plays as early as 1959, and on subsequent soap operas like Emergency Ward 10.
The kiss between Kirk and Uhura is sometimes cited as the first white and black interracial kiss portrayed on US television. The episode features a kiss between James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) which for many years was described as the first interracial kiss on television. [4]
Star Trek's groundbreaking interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura was 50 years ago today – how have public attitudes to interracial and interethnic relationships changed in the years since?
Hours later came a tribute from Shatner, who portrayed Capt. Kirk in the original "Star Trek" and filmed with Nichols what was widely thought to be the first interracial kiss on television.
1 February – The first interracial kiss on television occurs during a live performance of the play Hot Summer Night, broadcast in the ABC Armchair Theatre strand. The kiss is between Andrée Melly and Lloyd Reckord (who will feature in another early televised interracial kiss three years later in the play You in Your Small Corner).
The original Star Trek was wildly progressive at times – it memorably broadcast the first interracial kiss on US TV, after all – but also stumbled into conservatism, too. Take the bizarre ...
The screening predated a better known interracial kiss on British television, on Emergency Ward 10 in 1964, and the first US interracial television kiss, on Star Trek in 1968, [3] each of which feature black women and white men. [8]