Julia was a 1960s television series, best remembered as being the first weekly series to depict an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role. Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants. The show starred actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran on NBC from 1968 to 1971 and was directed by Don Ameche.

In Julia, Carroll played a widowed single mother (her fighter pilot husband had been shot down in Vietnam) who was a nurse in a doctor's office. The doctor was played by Lloyd Nolan, and Julia's romantic interests by Paul Winfield and Fred Williamson.

Though Julia is now remembered as being groundbreaking, while it was airing, it was derided by a significant segment of the African American community as not being political or angry enough, due largely to its status as a standard, lighthearted sitcom. *

Carroll won the 1968 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a television series for her role in Julia.
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