Elected in 1964, Patsy T. Mink was sworn in on January 4, 1965,
as the first Asian – American woman and first woman of color
to serve in the U.S. Congress.

Throughout her career, the U.S. representative for Hawaii was
a strong supporter of civil and women’s rights, as well as an
advocate for children, labor unions and education.

Serving as a member of the Committee for Education and Labor,
Mink was vocal in her opposition to the Vietnam War and was
a supporter of a national daycare system, Head Start and the
Women’s Educational Equity Act.

She was again elected to Congress in 1990, serving until her
death at age 74 in 2002. Soon after her death, Title IX was
renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education
Act.         


    
    
    
    
       
        
       

1972

Patsy Matsu Mink (December 6, 1927 – September 28, 2002)

                                          
TIM MAGUIRE                     

 
CAMILLE BOHANNON

GEORGE EASTMAN (1854 – 1932)

Founder of the Eastman Kodak Company,
whose invention of roll film popularized
amateur photography for the masses.

One of America’s best-loved presidents, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, was born into a politically and socially prominent
family in  Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He was the first
American president to be born and then serve in the 20th
century.

On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed
away partway through his fourth term in office, leaving Vice
President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting
the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of
unprecedented and terrifying power.

In the afternoon of April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia,
while sitting for a portrait by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, Roosevelt
said: "I have a terrific headache." He then slumped forward in
his chair, unconscious, and was carried into his bedroom.

The president’s attending cardiologist, Howard Bruenn, had
diagnosed a massive intracerebral hemorrhage.

The last photograph of U.S. President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, taken at Warm Springs, GA by Nicholas
Robbins for Elizabeth Shoumatoff.          
          

Engraving of the Four Freedoms at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, dedicated in 1997 in Washington,
D.C.