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LIVES Changed After TITLE IX
"You can do anything the boys can do."
Ku'ulei Agbayani first full time female radio sportscaster in Hawaii.
Portrait Unveil US Capitol
Excerpts https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/724288461
Full length - entire Portrait Unveil ceremony, plus a panel discussion from Hawaii. (44 min.) https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/724330052
Congresswoman Patsy Mink with her daughter and husband.
Title IX 1972-2022
Title IX, also called the Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity Education Act.
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
National Cover Story
Congresswoman Patsy Mink of Hawaii
Why Women Are Needed In Government - March 28, 1965
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Woman of the Year - Time Magazine 1972 *
Podcast Video
Wendy Mink
Patsy Mink's daughter Wendy Mink and
co-author Judy Wu discuss their new book, FIERCE AND FEARLESS.
PODCASTS
Lorna Takehara Strand
Lorna’s father Toshi Takehara and Patsy Takemoto sat next to each other in their alphabetically assigned seats in pre-med classes at the University of Hawaii. While Patsy was rejected from dozens of medical schools because she was a woman, Toshi went off to dental school.
As a young girl, Lorna loved Patsy’s Christmas parties where Patsy would dance the hula.
Patsy and Lorna's mother Alice broke traditions. They navigated through the traditional Japanese cultural norms of male dominance in order to change the system. Alice managed Patsy’s campaign when she ran for the US Senate against Spark Matsunaga in 1976 and lost.
John Bickel
Patsy Mink hired John Bickel to be her Press Secretary for her 1986 campaign for Governor, which she lost. In 1990, he played a key role in getting Patsy Mink re-elected and back in Congress. Now a teacher, John discusses how President Lyndon Johnson teamed up with Congresswoman Patsy Mink to pass new federal laws to improve access to education throughout the United States. Patsy would always tell John, “If you want to lower the crime rate, let’s improve education. You want to end poverty, let’s improve education.”
Claire Shimabukuro
Patsy and her husband John Mink lived in Waipahu, a plantation town.
Claire’s mother was Patsy Mink’s office campaign manager. Orange was Patsy’s favorite color and was used in her campaigns. Patsy Mink's first election was in 1956 for the Territorial House of Representatives. Claire was a little girl when she went with her mother door-to-door holding a can with a little slot to collect coins to finance the campaign. Their strategy was grassroots with an appeal to the stay-at-home mother. It was the first time a campaign TV commercial showed housewives. Later, In the mid-1960s, Claire saw her mother and Patsy crying after being bullied by men who wanted them to drop out of the race. The two mothers were outsiders and harassed because politics was for men.
Herb Lee
Native Hawaiian activist Herb Lee was Patsy Mink’s Chief of Staff when she served on the Honolulu City Council from 1982-1986. What is the difference between a statesperson and a politician? Herb says, Patsy was a statesperson and not a politician. She was a principled person. She didn’t float with the wind.