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in 1965, Patsy Mink of Hawaii was sworn in as the first Asian American woman & first woman of color to serve in the U.S. Congress.

Mink supported legislation to help women, especially women of color & women in poverty. She co-authored the landmark Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act. After Mink’s death in 2002, Title IX was renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act.

🎧: unsunghistorypodcast.com/patsy

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