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July 25

Ellen Holly (1968)
On this date in 1968, the first Black actress integrated American day-time television.

African-American Ellen Holly appeared on ABC’s “One Life To Live.” She appeared on "In the Heat of the Night" TV seriesand "Naked City," but is best remembered by long-time soap fans as actress-turned-Judge Clara "Carla" Hall on "One Life to Live," a role she played from 1968 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1985.The show was the first to have a racially mixed cast and confront interracial relationships.

An accomplished writer as well as actress, she wrote much of the storyline for Carla on One Life to Live. She is one of the few African-American writers in the soap opera genre. She later wrote a book, "One Life: The Autobiography of an African American Actress."

She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

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