A Woman to Know: Patsy Mink
[Be] willing to cut the first furrow in the ground. — Patsy
(image via Library of Congress)
How's this for some "firsts": the first Japanese-American woman to practice law in Hawaii, the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, the first Asian-American woman to serve in Congress *and* *in addition to all of that* the first Asian-American woman to run for president.
Oh, and there's more. She wrote Title IX -- and got it passed.
I mean, wow. Wow.
Add to your reading list:
A Heart in Politics: Women Who Dared (Sue Davidson)
A Minority of Members: Women in the U.S. Congress (Hope Chamberlin)
Called from Within (Mari J. Matsuda)
Read more:
Patsy Mink, Hawaiian Congresswoman, Dies at 74 (The New York Times)
The Mother of Title IX: Patsy Mink (The She Network)
Patsy Takemoto Mink (National Women's History Museum)
The 15 Women Who Have Responded to the State of the Union Address (Slate)
Patsy Takemoto Mink (Women on 20s)
Hawaii's Patsy Mink Honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom (NBC)
Patsy Mink: Political Pioneer (University of Chicago)
Watch more:
Ahead of the Majority: Patsy Mink (Kimberlee Bassford)
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