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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

George Stinney

1929 - 1944

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George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14, was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Stinney has received more than 9,867,370 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). George Stinney is the 115th most popular social activist (down from 54th in 2019), the 1,099th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,148th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Social Activist.

George Stinney was the youngest person to be executed in the United States in the 20th century. He was 14 years old when he was convicted of the murder of two young girls, Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8. He was executed by electrocution in 1944.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, George Stinney ranks 115 out of 538. Before him are Paul Schäfer, Frank Costello, Mordechai Anielewicz, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Jody Williams, and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. After him are Vinoba Bhave, Georgy Gapon, Hans Scholl, Hilda Gadea, Rashid ad-Din Sinan, and Vesna Vulović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, George Stinney ranks 71. Before him are Stirling Moss, Werner Arber, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, Violeta Chamorro, Paul Lauterbur, and Bruno Cremer. After him are Lennart Johansson, Claes Oldenburg, Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, Alfred Moisiu, Nikolai Ryzhkov, and Ágnes Heller. Among people deceased in 1944, George Stinney ranks 57. Before him are Abbas II of Egypt, August Landmesser, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Bertha Benz, Bronislav Kaminski, and Mohammed Alim Khan. After him are Walter Nowotny, Otto von Below, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Vera Menchik, Jean Giraudoux, and Christian Wirth.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Stinney ranks 1,099 out of 18,182. Before him are Edmund Kemper (1948), Kathryn Bigelow (1951), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Roger Zelazny (1937), Larry Page (1973), and Bob Kahn (1938). After him are Robin Cook (1940), Hattie McDaniel (1893), Tom Berenger (1949), Brooke Shields (1965), Marshall Rosenberg (1934), and Mary Ainsworth (1913).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, George Stinney ranks 14. Before him are Angela Davis (1944), Jane Addams (1860), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Bugsy Siegel (1906), Susan B. Anthony (1820), and Jody Williams (1950). After him are John Brown (1800), Frederick Douglass (1818), Betty Ford (1918), Edward Snowden (1983), Margaret Sanger (1879), and Fred Phelps (1929).

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