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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: PATSY TAKEMOTO MINKadmin2020-01-29T16:23:17-05:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink

December 6, 1927 – September 28, 2002

Patsy Takemoto Mink served in the US Congress from 1965-1977 and again from 1990-2002, where she represented Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District. The first woman of color elected to the US House of Representatives, she worked tirelessly for civil rights, women’s rights, economic justice, civil liberties, labor, education, Title IX, peace, and the integrity of the democratic process.

Photos 1, 2 and 4. Representative Patsy Mink. Photo 3. With President Lyndon B. Johnson.

More About Patsy:

  • Patsy Takemoto Mink Education Foundation
  • Patsy Mink Statue
  • Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority – Women Make Movies Trailer – A film by Kimberlee Bassford
  • Patsy Takemoto Mink’s Trailblazing Testimony Against a Supreme Court Nominee by Ellen Lee for The Atlantic
  • Patsy Mink and Title IX
  • “Patsy Mink Speaks at 1984 Democratic National Convention” NBC News, New York, NY: NBC Universal, 07/16/1984
  • National Women’s History Museum
  • National Women’s Hall of Fame
  • On C-SPAN
  • Patsy T. Mink – US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives includes:
    • Papers
    • Biography
    • Committee Assignments
  • Hawaii State Public Library System
  • Wikipedia
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – page’s 316 – 317

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