Rep. Patsy Mink, D-Hawaii, takes part in a hearing of the House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on the whether to issue subpoenas on the 1996 Teamsters elections.Lakshmi Gandhi
March is Women’s History Month, and NBC Asian America is commemorating it by celebrating some of the Asian-American women those in the United States may not have learned about in school.National Women's History Museum Afong Moy was just 19 when she arrived in New York City from China in 1834, and historians believe she was the first Chinese woman to immigrate to the United States,After a financial agreement between her father and the American businessmen Nathaniel and Frederick Carne, Moy boarded the Carnes’ ship and headed to New York Harbor.
Not everyone was happy with Moy’s rise to fame. While she toured the country with her “room” and met dignitaries including President Andrew Jackson, many newspapers decried the Carnes’ treatment of Moy. The The New-York Mirror refused to cover Moy and the exhibition, explaining its decision in a one page editorial decrying the Carnes’ treatment of her,
. While her family’s initial agreement with the Carnes was supposed to have her return to China after two years, she was touring the United States as late as 1847.Dr. Anandabai Joshee graduated in 1886, being"the first Hindu woman to receive the degree of medicine in any country."
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