Patsy Mink
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Patsy Matsu Mink was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii who served in the United States House of Representatives for 24 years as a member of the Democratic Party, initia
Official portrait, c. 1994
Mink with Lyndon Johnson after his trip to Hawaii for a conference on the Vietnam War, February 1966
1972 campaign poster image from the Patsy Mink for President Committee
Mink announcing the formation of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
Title IX
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Title IX is a landmark federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other educ
Patsy Mink
…initiated a lawsuit which led to significant changes to presidential authority under the Freedom of Information Act in 1971. In 1972, she co-authored the Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act, later renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act in 2002. Mink was the first East Asian-American woman to seek the presidential…
Rep. Edith Green of Oregon laid the foundation for Title IX.
Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana
Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, the "Father of Title IX"
Senator Bayh exercises with Title IX athletes at Purdue University in the 1970s.