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PBS HONORS BLACK STEWARDESS CIVIL RIGHTS FIGHT FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH

PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE honors Black History Month by featuring Pat Banks Edmiston, Undra Mays and Casey Grant who paved the way for future black stewardess careers in a short film on “Civil Rights in the Sky”. The film shows how these brave women fought strongly for their rights to have the job they wanted despite…

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Airline Must Pay for Violating Disabled Rights

Yesterday, the news broke that the Department of Transportation reached a record $50 million settlement with American Airlines for breaking laws by failing to properly help disabled passengers get on and off its planes, providing them unsafe help that caused injuries, and mishandling thousands of wheelchairs, damaging them. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who lost both…

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Airline Industry | Dusty Roads | Women's Liberation | Women's Rights | Women’s History

PBS airs “Fly With Me” documentary on Feb. 20, featuring interviews with Author Elaine Rock and flight attendants Dusty Roads and Jean Montague

I am thrilled to announce that I will be featured as an expert on Barbara “Dusty” Roads and early flight attendant history in the PBS American Experience documentary “Fly With Me,” airing on Feb. 20 at 9 p.m. on your local PBS station. It will also stream on PBS.org. Sara Colt Productions interviewed me last…

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Airline Industry | Flight Attendant Unions

Worldwide Flight Attendant Day of Action

Flight Attendants across the industry are fighting to raise the standards for our career. More than two-thirds of the U.S. Flight Attendants are in contract negotiations right now, including red-hot contract fights at Alaska, Air Wisconsin, United, Omni, American, Southwest, Frontier and more. This moment is not about what uniform we wear: It’s about what…

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The Points Guy posted a great review, written by Harriet Baskas, about tonight’s PBS American Experience documentary. She mentions how Dusty and Jean entered the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission after the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title VII passed Congress and filed the first discrimination complaint in the country based on gender discrimination. In the…

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PBS HONORS BLACK STEWARDESS CIVIL RIGHTS FIGHT FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Airline Must Pay for Violating Disabled Rights

PBS airs “Fly With Me” documentary on Feb. 20, featuring interviews with Author Elaine Rock and flight attendants Dusty Roads and Jean Montague

Worldwide Flight Attendant Day of Action

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