PBS HONORS BLACK STEWARDESS CIVIL RIGHTS FIGHT FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH

elainerock — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:47:05 +0000

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 the discrimination that was rampant during those times. Their efforts enabled career opportunities for others. The film was based on the documentary “Fly With Me” that aired February 20, 2024. See the short film here: https://youtu.be/-usX2ZNvvRA?si=2ZS3X9FgGdYkqGEy

You can also learn more about women who changed the world while flying it in Fly With Me, now streaming in the PBS App. The film features Dusty Roads and me, as Dusty’s biographer, as well as other pioneering women “who changed the world while flying in it” and who fought for the dignity to have a career not just a job.

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

elainerock — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:29:16 +0000

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 June. Dusty and Jean were also interviewed about their experiences as stewardesses and flight attendants. As a union leader, negotiator, and one of the first female lobbyists to Congress, Dusty’s attempts to overturn the airline rules firing them at age thirty-two, and banning marriage would change the airline industry and spark the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement. Timing and serendipity have followed me throughout the lengthy process of writing and researching my biography of Dusty Roads. My book will be in bookstores on Aug. 26 (Women’s Equality Day). Here’s a link to the 2-minute PBS trailer for the program:

https://www.p bs.org/video/trailer-fly-with-me/

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PBS HONORS BLACK STEWARDESS CIVIL RIGHTS FIGHT FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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