SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Dorothea Dix

1802 - 1887

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Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothea Dix has received more than 1,276,942 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Dorothea Dix is the 498th most popular social activist (up from 508th in 2019), the 7,031st most popular biography from United States (up from 9,594th in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Dorothea Dix ranks 498 out of 840. Before her are Raisa Aronova, Josué de Castro, Eugénie Cotton, Malalai of Maiwand, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Stokely Carmichael. After her are Bagha Jatin, David Reimer, Virginia Bolten, Gertrud Adelborg, Mari Beyleryan, and Denis Goldberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Dorothea Dix ranks 52. Before her are Yuriy Venelin, Eugène Flachat, Robert Chambers, Nicholas Wiseman, David Octavius Hill, and Wilhelm Matthias Naeff. After her are Manuel María Lombardini, Alexander Odoevsky, Charles-Mathias Simons, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Sylvain Van de Weyer, and Édouard Ménétries. Among people deceased in 1887, Dorothea Dix ranks 50. Before her are Mikhail Katkov, Peder Balke, Fran Levstik, E. Marlitt, John Taylor, and August W. Eichler. After her are Spencer Fullerton Baird, José Rufino Echenique, Sarah Yorke Jackson, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, August Spies, and Semyon Nadson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothea Dix ranks 7,031 out of 20,380. Before her are Richard Boone (1917), Justin Long (1978), William Henry Vanderbilt (1821), George Winston (1949), Elisha Cook Jr. (1903), and Mary Travers (1936). After her are Mary J. Blige (1971), Sheryl Sandberg (1969), Whitney Smith (1940), Roman Reigns (1985), Sidney Howard (1891), and Lois Weber (1879).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Dorothea Dix ranks 68. Before her are Lucy Stone (1818), Medgar Evers (1925), Phyllis Schlafly (1924), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), Fred Hampton (1948), and Pretty Boy Floyd (1904). After her are William Luther Pierce (1933), Jerry Rubin (1938), Lucy Parsons (1853), Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842), Ruby Bridges (1954), and Martin Luther King Sr. (1899).

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