Her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial moves millions of visitors a year with its stark yet beautiful reminder of service and sacrifice. She found out she won the national design contest for the memorial a few days before her college graduation. Head to 1981 to meet 21 year old Maya Lin…
Patsy Mink
When she was a kid it was acceptable for high schools to ban girls from playing sports and taking classes in subjects like math and science. When she applied to college it was acceptable for universities to admit only a few women at a time and bar them from majors that were too “masculine.” When she was a Congresswoman, she wrote a law to change all of that. Join us in the halls of the 1971 Congress and meet Patsy Mink…