PATSY TAKEMOTO MINK: FIERCE AND FEARLESS Module 4: The Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act Is it important to have an Asian American in Congress?copy section URL to clipboard When Kamala Harris was elected to serve as vice president of the United States in 2020, she became the first woman and person of…
PATSY TAKEMOTO MINK: FIERCE AND FEARLESS Module 2: Opposition to the Vietnam War and US Presidential Campaign Is it important to have an Asian American in Congress?copy section URL to clipboard Patsy Mink entered the House of Representatives in 1965 just as the United States committed to a ground war in Vietnam. The US had…
PATSY TAKEMOTO MINK: FIERCE AND FEARLESS Module 3: Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism, and a Pacific Worldview Is it important to have an Asian American in Congress?copy section URL to clipboard Growing up in Hawai‘i shaped how Patsy Mink thought about the world around her. She once wrote to a colleague, “I feel the people of…
PEOPLE AND EVERYDAY LIFE Patsy Takemoto Mink: Fierce and Fearless 00:00 Is it important to have an Asian American in Congress? Chapter objectives Did you know that Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927–2002), a third generation Japanese American who was born in Hawai‘i, was the first woman of color in Congress? She even ran for President in…
PATSY TAKEMOTO MINK: FIERCE AND FEARLESS Module 1: Overview Is it important to have an Asian American in Congress?copy section URL to clipboard What is it like to be the first? When Patsy Mink entered Congress in 1965, she was the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman to serve in the…
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