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 civil rights law passed in 1972 that prevents sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions, ...

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Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. The biography notes that Mink was the first Japanese American in Hawaii to practice law, first ...