- unitid
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{"value"=>"186413", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22252523", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Banks 2001-32", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1997", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1997"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Patricia Banks moving image collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 video_recording", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Patricia Banks was one of the first Black flight attendants in the United States. The collection contains one video, dated 1997, in which Banks talks about winning the case against Capital Airlines to be hired in 1960."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Edmiston, Patricia Banks, 1937-", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Patricia Banks was one of the first Black flight attendants in the United States.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Journalist and nurse Ruth Carol Taylor was the first African American flight attendant in the United States in 1958.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of one video dated 1997, in which <span class=\"title\">NBC Nightly News</span> aired a Black History Month segment about Patricia Banks's life and her successful legal case to become one of the country's first Black flight attendants.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Patricia N. Banks Edmiston, 2001.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Patricia Banks collection, Sc MG 697.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Stacey Doyle Ference</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Lyric Evans-Hunter</span>, archivist; and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2024</span>.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project."}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Lyric Benjamin-Hunter.", "date"=>"2026-04-22"}
- date_start
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1997
- keydate
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1997
- date_end
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1997
- date_inclusive_start
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1997
- date_inclusive_end
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1997
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Patricia Banks moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}