On 12-23-97 Zorch Frezberg wrote to Paul Andinach... 
 
 PA>  ...and, of course, _Star Trek_ showed the first kiss on American
 PA> TV between a white man and a black woman. 
 
 ZF> Nope.  Sorry.  The first interracial kiss actually occurred in 1954 
 ZF> , on an American sit-com carried live on network television, and 
 ZF> was seen by nearly 12 million people across the US. 
 
 ZF> And now, the title escapes me, but it was about a black maid 
 ZF> working in a white home...title was the name of the lead 
 ZF> character..."Marigold"? 
 
 That title and program description don't sound familiar at all. 
 I believe that Diane Carroll was the first black female to star 
 in her own network show, but she didn't play a maid.  Seems to 
 me that she was the widow of an air force officer, working in a 
 doctor's office. I don't recall any interracial dating. 
 
 In the show you mentioned, was this a romantic kiss between two 
 adults as opposed to an adult giving a child a kiss on the 
 cheek? (I don't consider the Trek kiss romantic or erotic in 
 that it was compelled by outside forces, but at least Kirk and 
 Uhura were adults.) 
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