Copy of the ruling in "Patricia Banks vs. Capital Airlines"

Patricia Banks, a native New Yorker, fought discrimination by filing a lawsuit against Capital Airlines through the New York State Commission Against Discrimination. A graduate of the Grace Downs Air Career School, Banks applied to several airlines companies for a stewardess position, but was repeatedly denied employment. In 1957 she filed a suit against Capital Airlines (which later merged in 1961 with United Airlines), and in 1960 the Commission ruled in her favor and ordered the company to hire her. Banks completed the Capital Airlines stewardess training program that year and became the first African American to work as a flight attendant on a commercial carrier. She resigned a year later in order to pursue her education.