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In 1965, Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first woman of color in the United States Congress. Seven years later, she ran for the US presidency and was the driving force behind Title IX, the landmark legislation that transformed women’s opportunities in higher education and athletics.
Mink, JD’51, devoted much of her life to making sure that all citizens could share in America’s promise, including the poor, ethnic minorities, and women. Elected to Congress in 1964, she helped usher in the social-welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, later fighting to preserve them after they fell out of favor in Washington.
Patsy Mink was elected to represent Hawaii’s second congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first Asian American woman in Congress. Mink would go on to serve in the House of Representatives until 1977. In office, Mink fought for racial and gender equality.
Today, her mission lives on through the Patsy T. Mink Foundation, administered by Gwendolyn, which supports low-income women with children pursuing higher education. Patsy Mink, public domain image. “I hope that today’s generation of young girls will grow up to be the next generation of young women who fight as hard as young women have over the past 50 years.”
6 de mar. de 2019 · As a Japanese-American from Hawaii, Patsy Mink became the first woman of color in Congress and the first Asian American woman to serve in Congress in 1964. Her work for the advancement and equality of women not only affected politics, but also education and reproductive rights. Patsy Mink was born in 1927 in Paia, Maui.
22 de mar. de 2019 · Patsy Takemoto Mink was born in Pā`ia, Maui, on December 6, 1927, to Nisei parents Suematsu and Mitama Takemoto. Like many Japanese Americans growing up in Hawai`i at that time, she was raised on a sugar plantation.However, as the Sansei daughter of a land surveyor allotted a private cottage, company car, and two acres of land, her experiences were very different from her mostly Nisei peers ...
New York Times Op-Doc June 2022. When the Backlash Came for Title IX, She Fought Back.Throughout her life, Representative Patsy Mink challenged the status quo. As a leading advocate of Title IX, she defended the bill against those who sought to weaken it. By Ben Proudfoot.
