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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, peace, and the integrity of the democratic process. Patsy was born in Paia, Hawaii Territory, on December 6, 1927. She graduated from Maui High School in 1944 as class president and valedictorian. She became her high school’s first female student body president only one month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in her home state. She was denied admission by all twenty of the medical schools to which she had applied. Because she was a she and not a he. She went instead to the University of Chicago Law School, where she earned her Juris Doctor in 1951. Moving back to Hawaii Patsy passed the bar exam in 1953, and established a solo practice to become the first Japanese-American woman to practice law in the Territory of Hawaii. Three years later Patsy Mink was elected to Hawaii’s Territorial Legislature, and two years later to its Senate. Six years later, in 1964, she made history when she became the first Asian-American woman elected to the US Congress. In 1972 she was the principal author and sponsor of a law that required equal financing for women’s athletics and academics at federally funded institutions—Title IX Amendment of the Higher Edcuation Act of 1972. Her law, together with the larger women’s movement, changed the world. Women’s representation in US higher education rose from a tenth to half and more, and the achievements of her law-making became an example for the rest of the world. For over four decades, Mink championed the rights of immigrants, minorities, women, and children, and worked to eradicate the kind of discrimination she had faced in her life. She was known for her integrity, determination, tenacity, and honesty. After her death in 2002, Title IX was renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act. In 2014, Mink was awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. #wcw #herstory

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