BlackHistoryMonth: Casey Grant, one of the first black flight attendants, tells the story of her time as a 'fly girl' traveling the world. However, she says, it was not without racial prejudice and discrimination both on the ground and in-flight
In “Stars in the Sky” author Casey Grant, show here in the cockpit of an airplane in the 1980s, shares emotional stories of racial discrimination in the aviation industry, including that of one pilot who had a rule: "no n-ggers in the cockpit.Let me say this, most of the flight attendants we worked with were nice and Delta was always very supportive of us, but many times it was a different story with the passengers.
Casey Grant was one of four African Americans who graduated from a Delta Air Lines stewardess training class in 1971. In 2015, Delta celebrated 75 years of flight attendant service.NBCBLK: The book is mostly about female flight attendants because that’s most common, but you also write about men too, right?
Sometimes the discrimination was subtle and sometimes it was overt. For example, in the early years [flight attendants] shared [hotel] rooms. If you roomed with a white flight attendant she would always take her shower first; if she didn’t take one first, she didn’t take a shower at all. We also got to meet a lot of celebrities. I’ve had the opportunity to meet three U.S. presidents: Carter, Clinton and the last being Obama. I met a lot of professional sports figures like Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. I also had the opportunity to meet Martin Luther King Sr., Coretta [Scott] King, Duke Ellington, Maya Angelou, Little Richard, Smokey Robinson, Jerry West, Dale Evans, Jimmy Stewart, James Arness and Amanda Blake. It was exciting and fun.
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