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Official portrait of Hawaii territorial senate, 1958 / Library of Congress - Google Arts & Culture. Congresswoman Patsy Mink - Google Arts & Culture. Patsy T. Mink Papers (Manuscript Reading Room, Library of Congress) In 2007, the Manuscript Division celebrated the completion of a 3½-year project to process the rich and voluminous papers of former Hawaii representative and Title IX advocate Patsy T. Mink (1927-2002), which had been donated to the Library in 2003 by Mink’s husband and daughter. A copy of the extensive finding aid is available on the division’s Web site. Congresswoman Mink was a vigorous and tireless champion of women's rights, an early and vocal opponent to the Vietnam War, and a leader on issues involving education, the environment, welfare, and civil rights.

With her election in 1964, Mink became the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman to serve in Congress. She represented the people of Hawaii during two periods, the first from 1965 to 1977 and again from 1990 until her death in 2002. The Mink collection, which numbers nearly 900,000 items, is arranged in 2,710 boxes and is described in a 700-plus-page finding aid. Patsy Mink, Veteran Hawaii Congresswoman, Dies at 74. ''It's rare as a legislator that you fight for legislation you believe in and stay around or live long enough to see it come to fruition,'' Ms. Mink said in 1995, in a meeting with some of the nation's top female basketball players.

Ms. Mink was known as articulate and strong-willed, and willing to fight for causes large and small. In 1967, she and two other congresswomen tried to get into the House gym, after hearing about a form letter inviting members to use what was at the time an exclusively male preserve. Several years later, she took on Dr. Ms. ''Just because I'm interested in women doesn't mean I'm for women's liberation,'' she told The New York Times in 1970. Patsy Takemoto was born in Paia, a sugar plantation town on the island of Maui, on Dec. 6, 1927. In 1951, she graduated from the University of Chicago Law School. In 1956, Ms. In her first period in Congress, Ms.

In 1972 she and Representative Bella S. In 1967, in a speech before the House of Representatives, Ms. Ms. Ms.