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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Lucy Parsons

1853 - 1942

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Lucy E. Parsons (c. 1851 – 1942) was an American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist. Her early life is shrouded in mystery: she herself said she was of mixed Mexican and Native American ancestry; historians believe she was born to an African American slave, possibly in Virginia, then married a black freedman in Texas. In addition to Parsons, she went by different surnames during her life including Carter, Diaz, Gonzalez and Hull. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucy Parsons has received more than 515,463 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Lucy Parsons is the 467th most popular social activist (down from 369th in 2019), the 7,854th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,632nd in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Lucy Parsons ranks 467 out of 538Before her are Stephen Mallory, Manilal Gandhi, Daniel De Leon, Ralph Abernathy, Urani Rumbo, and Prudencia Ayala. After her are Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Hereward the Wake, Aslı Erdoğan, Ernestine Rose, Emily Hobhouse, and Thomas Clarkson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Lucy Parsons ranks 93Before her are René Bazin, Gaston Bonnier, Gertrud Adelborg, William Gillette, David Belasco, and Emilio Aceval. After her are Jacob Wackernagel, Philander C. Knox, and John Henry Twachtman. Among people deceased in 1942, Lucy Parsons ranks 194Before her are William Henry Young, Marcellin Boule, Belisario Porras Barahona, Racho Petrov, Gertrud Adelborg, and Sidney Fox. After her are John Goodall, Joaquín Sánchez de Toca, James Juvenal, Clinton Hart Merriam, Max Bodenstein, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lucy Parsons ranks 7,854 out of 18,182Before her are Doc Watson (1923), Libby Holman (1904), Nancy Kovack (1935), Glenn Morris (1912), Joseph Williams (1960), and Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884). After her are Daniel Kelly (1883), Melissa Joan Hart (1976), Rose Cleveland (1846), Otis Spann (1924), John James (1956), and Joe Alaskey (1952).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Lucy Parsons ranks 70Before her are Ruby Bridges (1954), William Luther Pierce (1933), Medgar Evers (1925), Bill Haywood (1869), Sumner Paine (1868), and Ralph Abernathy (1926). After her are James Meredith (1933), Betty Ong (1956), Karen Silkwood (1946), Ella Baker (1903), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), and Martin Luther King III (1957).