15. Not only was Ellen Ochoa the first Latin American in space, according to NASA She is a co-inventor on three patents for an optical inspection system, an optical object recognition method, and a method for noise removal in images. is known for successfully campaigning with other tribes in the 1950s and 1960s to resist the U. S. government's attempts to procure land and resources by terminating tribal status. 17. Born in Edenton, North Carolina, was an enslaved woman who hid for seven years in her grandmother's attic. She finally escaped aboard a ship and was the first woman to write a slave narrative. 18. After hearing Fredrick Douglas speak at a Brooklyn Church besme involved in the campaign for civil rights and was eventually appointed the executive secretary of the NAACP in 1910. 19. After escaping an abusive arranged marriage. founded Women for Women International, a grassroots humanitarian organization dedicated to helping women survivors of war rebuild their lives. was placed on the FBI's Top Ten Most List under false changes. She was a chvil rights and Black Power activist, a writer, an academic, and leading crite of the Prison Industrial Complex, wote Year of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps the first published work by a Japanese American on the no to become an advocate for Japanese Americans who we denied for mistreatment​