Mary Brave Bird (has also been published under the name Mary Crow Dog) is a Lakota Indian who wrote her memoir "Lakota Woman" focussing on her interactions with the AIM movement in the 1970s, including the second battle of Wouned Knee and the Trail of Broken Treaties.
You might also try looking at the the national women's hall of fame (http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewAll), if you haven't already. I know that all the ones on that list are American but many are of Indian, latino, and pacific Islander backgrounds.
Also, she is not a racial minority, but Esther Morris has always been a favorite famous woman of mine. She's sometimes known as the "Mother of Suffrage" for her work in getting women the vote in Wyoming, the first government to allow women to vote. She also became the first female Justice of the Peace that same year, a post she held for a long time.
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Date: 2010-03-16 10:17 pm (UTC)You might also try looking at the the national women's hall of fame (http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewAll), if you haven't already. I know that all the ones on that list are American but many are of Indian, latino, and pacific Islander backgrounds.
Also, she is not a racial minority, but Esther Morris has always been a favorite famous woman of mine. She's sometimes known as the "Mother of Suffrage" for her work in getting women the vote in Wyoming, the first government to allow women to vote. She also became the first female Justice of the Peace that same year, a post she held for a long time.