SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Albert Parsons

1848 - 1887

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Albert Richard Parsons (June 20, 1848 – November 11, 1887) was a pioneering American socialist and later anarchist newspaper editor, orator, and labor activist. As a teenager, he served in the military force of the Confederate States of America in Texas, during the American Civil War. After the war, he settled in Texas, and became an activist for the rights of former slaves, and later a Republican official during Reconstruction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Parsons has received more than 278,251 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Parsons is the 579th most popular social activist, the 9,395th most popular biography from United States and the 84th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Albert Parsons ranks 579 out of 840. Before him are Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Flora Drummond, Emily Davies, Bruno Manser, Lepa Mladjenovic, and Wang Dan. After him are Thomas Clarkson, James Meredith, Luis Taruc, Sylvia Rivera, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, and Selena Rocky Malone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Albert Parsons ranks 115. Before him are Lewis Howard Latimer, Otto Bütschli, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Matthew Webb, Ivan Yakovlev, and Amos Burn. After him are W. G. Grace, Eliodoro Villazón, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louisa Lawson, and B. B. Comer. Among people deceased in 1887, Albert Parsons ranks 59. Before him are Sarah Yorke Jackson, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, August Spies, Semyon Nadson, Henry Ward Beecher, and Joachim IV of Constantinople. After him are Balfour Stewart, Elihu B. Washburne, George Alexander Macfarren, Alfred Domett, Dinah Craik, and Robert M. T. Hunter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Albert Parsons ranks 9,395 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas Ian Griffith (1962), Andy Devine (1905), James H. Clark (1944), Robert Keith (1898), Kim Kashkashian (1952), and Michael Flynn (1958). After him are Ira Aldridge (1807), Alana de la Garza (1976), Michael Swanwick (1950), Richard Tyson (1956), Norman Fell (1924), and Sally Struthers (1947).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Albert Parsons ranks 84. Before him are Bill Haywood (1869), Mamie Till (1921), Ralph Abernathy (1926), Dolores Huerta (1930), Sam Childers (1963), and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890). After him are James Meredith (1933), Sylvia Rivera (1951), Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861), Alva Belmont (1853), Katie Eder (1950), and Andrea James (1967).

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