Patsy Takemoto Mink blazed the trail for Kamala Harris – not famous white woman Susan B. Anthony
- Written by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the UCI Humanities Institute, University of California, Irvine
Congress had very few women members back in 1960, and just one woman of color: Representative Patsy Mink of Hawaii.Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Clad in suffragette white, Kamala Harris used her first speech as the United States’ first female vice president-elect to commemorate women’s political achievements. Her victory comes one...
