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Mink!

When the Backlash Came for Title IX, She Fought Back

2022 · 21 min · ★ 9.0 · Documentary

Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawai'i who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress, on her harrowing mission to co-author and defend Title IX, the law that transformed athletics for generations in America for girls and women.

Directed by Ben Proudfoot

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