the Land-Grant Act of 1862", and the Higher Education Act of 1965 and 1967. Green's commitment to education earned her epithets like "the Mother of Higher Education" and "Mrs. Education". Green also provided significant input to the National Defense Education Act of 1958, intended to keep the United States ahead of the Soviet Union during the space race after the launch of Sputnik 1. Green helped to develop the legislation that was to become Title IX, now-called the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act. The law prohibited sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. In the late 1960s, after noting that while programs existed to keep boys in school but no similar programs existed for girls, Green sought to correct this inequality. She helped to introduce a higher education bill that contained provisions regarding gender equity in education. The hearings on this bill, working together with fellow Representative Patsy Mink and Senator Birch Bayh, eventually resulted in the passage of Title IX in 1972. In 1964, she was the only woman in the House of Representatives who voted against including sex as a protected class in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the amendment to do so had been introduced by Virginia Congressman Howard W. Smith in an attempt to sink the bill. In order not to endanger passage of the bill prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin, Green was willing to forego the inclusion of sex, noting "For every discrimination that I have suffered, the Negro woman has suffered ten times that amount of discrimination." Senator Mark Hatfield called Green "the most powerful woman ever to serve in the Congress". Adlai Stevenson selected her to second his nomination at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, John F. Kennedy also selected her to second his nomination at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, and she headed the state primary campaigns for John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson. Green herself had been considered a contender for U.S. Senate several times, most notably in 1966, against eventual winner Mark Hatfield. She declined each time, however, to turn her House seniority for junior status in the Senate. After Congress Green decided not to seek an eleventh term in 1974 and resigned on December 31, 1974, just before her final term expired; she was succeeded by Robert B. Duncan. She