26 Oct 2024
On October 26, 1958, a Boeing 707 airplane—the first commercially widespread jetliner—took off from New York en route to Paris, and with it launched the Jet Age.
Explore a gallery of jet-age advertising 👇 #FlyWithMePBS to.pbs.org/3HTIwAP
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24 May 2024
After decades of airlines only hiring white flight attendants, in 1955, Pan Am hired its first Japanese-American stewardesses to service flights between San Francisco, Honolulu and Tokyo.
#FlyWithMePBS #AANHPIHeritageMonth #AAPIHeritageMonth
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5 Apr 2024
Fifty years ago today, news stations announced the ruling in Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, which ordered the airline to pay back wages to stewardesses who were fired for their weight or received less pay than male counterparts.
#FlyWithMePBS
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25 Mar 2024
In the 1960s, stewardesses fighting for workplace equality found common cause in a surprising, high-profile ally: activist, organizer and Ms. Magazine founder Gloria Steinem, who turns 90 today.
#WomensHistoryMonth #FlyWithMePBS
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17 Mar 2024
This Women's History Month, meet the women who set out to fly the world and ended up changing it in FLY WITH ME, now streaming on YouTube, PBS .org and in the free @PBS App!
#WomensHistoryMonth #FlyWithMePBS
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15 Mar 2024
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was meant to address racial inequalities in the United States. But a surprising late addition added "sex" to the protected categories. Was it an act of altruism or a poison pill?
#WomensHistoryMonth #FlyWithMePBS
bit.ly/3OFIP5R
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29 Feb 2024
Four years after filing a racial discrimination case against three major airlines, on February 29, 1960, the court ruled in Pat Banks' favor, opening the doors for Black women to become flight attendants.
#BlackHistoryMonth #FlyWithMePBS
bit.ly/4bqTWcV
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24 Feb 2024
Most chronicles of the Civil Rights Movement focus on marches and sit-ins. But there is a crucial racial justice battleground often overlooked—and it unfolded in the sky.
#BlackHistoryMonth #FlyWithMePBS
bit.ly/3uyGQtC
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24 Feb 2024
A Q&A with Casey Grant, one of the first Black flight attendants for Delta, featured in our new documentary, FLY WITH ME.
✈️ #FlyWithMePBS is now streaming online and in the @PBS App.
bit.ly/3T8FOO6
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21 Feb 2024
Exactly. #FlyWithMePBS
21 Feb 2024
I just watched the last bits of some PBS documentary about women fight attendants fighting for labor rights in the 60s and 70s and I’m just like
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21 Feb 2024
Fly With Me is out now! ✈️🎊
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21 Feb 2024
FLY WITH ME starts soon - join us as we live-post the premiere: #FlyWithMePBS
Watch along on your local @PBS station, or stream the film online beginning at 9/8c → to.pbs.org/3OdMbNo
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21 Feb 2024
✈️ Did you miss tonight’s broadcast? #FlyWithMePBS is now streaming online and on the @PBS App 👇
pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperie…
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21 Feb 2024
What questions do you have for @SarahColtProd, @kathleenmbarry2 and @theflygirl10 after watching #FlyWithMePBS?
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21 Feb 2024
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Highly recommended. #FlyWithMePBS
21 Feb 2024
FLY WITH ME starts soon - join us as we live-post the premiere: #FlyWithMePBS
Watch along on your local @PBS station, or stream the film online beginning at 9/8c → to.pbs.org/3OdMbNo
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21 Feb 2024
Thanks again to @LibertyMutual, Carlisle Companies, @SloanPublic, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, GBH Voices and Equity Fund, @BetterAngelsSoc, Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation, The American Experience Trust & @CPBmedia for supporting #FlyWithMePBS and #AmericanExperiencePBS.
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21 Feb 2024
“We weren't fighting for ourselves. That's what made it so wonderful. I wasn't fighting for me. I was fighting for the girl next to me.” - Dusty Roads
#FlyWithMePBS
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21 Feb 2024
Check out this @NYTimes Q&A with Mary Pat Laffey Inman about her experience as a stewardess and her landmark lawsuit.
#FlyWithMePBS
nytimes.com/2024/02/19/trave…
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21 Feb 2024
Stewardesses for Women’s Rights found common cause in a surprising, high-profile ally: @MsMagazine founder @GloriaSteinem.
#FlyWithMePBS
to.pbs.org/48ii12P
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21 Feb 2024
Oh Now they wanted her Face Out there to try and
Prove that they were not ‘Racist’
🙄🤬
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