SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Bill Haywood

1869 - 1928

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William Dudley Haywood (February 4, 1869 – May 18, 1928), nicknamed "Big Bill", was an American labor organizer and founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of America. During the first two decades of the 20th century, Haywood was involved in several important labor battles, including the Colorado Labor Wars, the Lawrence Textile Strike, and other textile strikes in Massachusetts and New Jersey. Haywood was an advocate of industrial unionism, and syndicalism, a labor philosophy that favors organizing all workers in an industry under one union, regardless of the specific trade or skill level; this was in contrast to the craft unions that were prevalent at the time, such as the AFL. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill Haywood has received more than 635,383 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Bill Haywood is the 557th most popular social activist (down from 454th in 2019), the 8,515th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,305th in 2019) and the 78th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Bill Haywood ranks 557 out of 840. Before him are Octavia Hill, Veerappan, Lida Heymann, Yelizaveta Chaikina, Eoin O'Duffy, and Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. After him are Mamie Till, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Usha Mehta, Urani Rumbo, Mina Ahadi, and Ralph Abernathy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Bill Haywood ranks 140. Before him are August Blom, Helene Stöcker, Henriette Roland Holst, Harry Stafford, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, and Albert Engström. After him are Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gerrit Smith Miller, Zaida Ben-Yusuf, Booth Tarkington, Stephen Leacock, and William Murrill. Among people deceased in 1928, Bill Haywood ranks 110. Before him are Jane Ellen Harrison, Roman Steinberg, Karl Röderer, Nina Bang, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Pierre Puiseux. After him are James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Xiang Jingyu, Jan Sztolcman, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Árpád Tóth, and Edmund Gosse.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill Haywood ranks 8,515 out of 20,380. Before him are Harvey Fletcher (1884), Criss Angel (1967), Shayla LaVeaux (1969), Bobby Hebb (1938), Lisa Fischer (1958), and Rick Berman (1945). After him are Paul Williams (1940), Les Clark (1907), Frank Tashlin (1913), Lloyd Bentsen (1921), Regina Hall (1970), and Butch Vig (1955).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Bill Haywood ranks 78. Before him are Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842), Ruby Bridges (1954), Martin Luther King Sr. (1899), Abraham Flexner (1866), Karen Silkwood (1946), and Roger Stone (1952). After him are Mamie Till (1921), Ralph Abernathy (1926), Dolores Huerta (1930), Sam Childers (1963), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), and Albert Parsons (1848).

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