Mink!
Mink!

Mink!

When the Backlash Came for Title IX, She Fought Back

9.0(1 votes)
2022
0h 21m
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.

Production

Hana Kuma, Breakwater Studios, The New York Times

Cast

Wendy Mink

Wendy Mink

Self

Patsy Mink

Patsy Mink

Self (archive footage)

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