SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Harriet Tubman

1820 - 1913

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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harriet Tubman has received more than 21,935,616 page views. Her biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Harriet Tubman is the 98th most popular social activist (down from 54th in 2019), the 857th most popular biography from United States (down from 501st in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Social Activist.

Harriet Tubman is most famous for her work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a network of people who helped slaves escape to freedom.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Harriet Tubman ranks 98 out of 840. Before her are Jimmy Hoffa, Vasil Levski, Kim Hyong-jik, Liu Xiaobo, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, and Anneliese Michel. After her are Susan B. Anthony, Zhang Jue, Annie Besant, Louise Michel, Leila Khaled, and Kasturba Gandhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Harriet Tubman ranks 11. Before her are Anne Brontë, Nadar, Henri, Count of Chambord, Jenny Lind, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, and Multatuli. After her are Susan B. Anthony, Božena Němcová, Henri Vieuxtemps, William John Macquorn Rankine, Lewis A. Swift, and Mathilde Bonaparte. Among people deceased in 1913, Harriet Tubman ranks 14. Before her are Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Menelik II, Sophia of Nassau, Tobias Asser, August Bebel, and Josephine Cochrane. After her are Philip Sclater, Francisco I. Madero, Ármin Vámbéry, Katsura Tarō, Lewis A. Swift, and Blanche Monnier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harriet Tubman ranks 857 out of 20,380. Before her are Clifford Shull (1915), Morgan Fairchild (1950), Ronnie Coleman (1964), Benjamin Guggenheim (1865), Bing Crosby (1903), and Powers Boothe (1948). After her are Benedict Arnold (1741), Robert Ludlum (1927), Aaron T. Beck (1921), Anne Sullivan (1866), Susan B. Anthony (1820), and Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Harriet Tubman ranks 10. Before her are Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Jane Addams (1860), Rosa Parks (1913), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Angela Davis (1944), and Jimmy Hoffa (1913). After her are Susan B. Anthony (1820), Jody Williams (1950), Bugsy Siegel (1906), Nat Turner (1800), Betty Ford (1918), and George Stinney (1929).

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