Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Congresswoman Patsy Takemoto Mink, a four-term Member of Congress from Hawaii in 1972, played a pivotal role in developing and ...

Title IX, the law best known for its role in gender equity in athletics and preventing sexual harassment on campuses, is turning 50. It was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on June 23, 1972, ...

Patsy Takemoto Mink, who grew up in the plantation camps of Hamakuapoko and rose to become the first Asian-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, was posthumously honored with ...

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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a portrait of the late Congresswoman Patsy Mink, who was the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. June 23 'Not acceptable': AFN ...

National Women’s Hall of Fame (NWHF) today announced it is hosting a power-packed forum in Washington, DC June 26 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education ...

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