10 Sitcom Single Parents Who Held It Down

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Airing on NBC from 1968-1971, Julia Baker was the title character of this groundbreaking single parent sitcom; the first to feature an African American woman as the lead. Played by the legendary Diahann Carroll, Julia was about a nurse and single mother raising her young son; a plotline that many critics considered unrealistic. Oh, how times have changed!

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