Fierce and Fearless – Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress Wu

Fierce and FearlessPatsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress\nAuthor(s): Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Gwendolyn Mink\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479831920, 978-1479831920\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2023 Mary Nickliss Prize in [url] Women's and/or Gender History, given by the Organization of American Historians\n The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX \n \""Every girl in Little League, every woman playing college sports, and every parentincluding Michelle and myselfwho watches their daughter on a field or in the classroom is forever grateful to the late Patsy Takemoto Mink.\""President Barack Obama, on posthumously awarding Mink the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014\n Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. Fierce and Fearless is the first biography .