This notice is being circulated by the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center.
January 30 is Civil Liberties and the Constitution Day in Hawaii, and the The King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center is celebrating with a virtual discussion of the late Congresswoman Patsy Mink, featuring Kimberlee Bassford, director of the documentary film Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority.
Register for the virtual discussion via Zoom HERE.
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Patsy Mink was the best representative Hawai`i ever sent to the US Congress. Not the most influential. We all know who that was. But the best.
Patsy Mink was certainly the best representative Hawaii sent to Congress, but she was also the most influential as well. One need look no further than her work in establishing educational equality for women through Title IX to acknowledge her historic national importance. The other contender did shovel vast amounts of money into Hawaii which is the basic job of any small-senator senator, but his national influence other than as a symbol of ethnic pride couldn’t match hers and diminishes with the passage of time. Perhaps this explains the desperation of his acolytes to attach his name to as much as possible; although, they seem to have decided not to name the Red Hill tanks after him. Minks vision and integrity are second to none and part of her strength was in not caring about what was named after her. After Barack Obama, Patsy Mink is the most important national figure born and raised in Hawaii.
Compare her legacy against the myriad of yahoos in Congress today…