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Old Feb 5, 2010, 8:20 am
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Originally Posted by ralfp
my wise-guy answer would probably be that the first black FA in the US was probably on a foreign carrier.
That actually does raise a good point. I wonder what sort of treatment those people faced during their stopovers in the U.S. Remember, back then many hotels and restaurants discriminated, and they might have had limited access to airport facilities as well.
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