Research Catalog
Patricia Banks moving image collection.
- Title
- Patricia Banks moving image collection.
- Author
- Edmiston, Patricia Banks, 1937-
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid for the collection
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MIRS Banks 2001-32 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS)
- Summary
- The collection contains one video recording, dated 1997, in which Banks talks about winning the case against Capital Airlines to be hired in 1960.
- Subjects
- Video recordings
- African Americans > Social conditions
- Race discrimination > United States
- African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc
- Discrimination in employment > United States
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Employment
- African American women > Employment
- Airlines > United States > Employees
- Flight attendants > Legal status, laws, etc > United States > Cases
- Flight attendants > United States
- United States > Race relations
- Capital Airlines History
- Banks, Patricia Noisette
- Genre/Form
- Video recordings.
- Biography (note)
- Patricia Banks was one of the first Black flight attendants in the United States. After graduating from Grace Downs Air Career School in 1956, Banks learned that airline companies did not hire Black flight attendants. She filed a lawsuit in 1957 through the New York State Commission Against Discrimination and won a case against Capital Airlines (which later merged with United Airlines). The airline hired her in 1960.
- Call Number
- Sc MIRS Banks 2001-32
- OCLC
- 1190861060
- Author
- Edmiston, Patricia Banks, 1937- creator.
- Title
- Patricia Banks moving image collection.
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- video
- Type of Carrier
- videocassette
- Biography
- Patricia Banks was one of the first Black flight attendants in the United States. After graduating from Grace Downs Air Career School in 1956, Banks learned that airline companies did not hire Black flight attendants. She filed a lawsuit in 1957 through the New York State Commission Against Discrimination and won a case against Capital Airlines (which later merged with United Airlines). The airline hired her in 1960.
- Local Note
- See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Patricia Banks collection, 1957-1999. Sc MG 697. Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division. Calendar, Movie and Product Advertisements can be found in the Art and Artifacts Division.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Banks 2001-32