Social Activist

Mary McLeod Bethune

American educator and civil rights leader

1875 - 1955

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Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2024). Mary McLeod Bethune is the 458th most popular social activist (up from 624th in 2024), the 6,449th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,029th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Social Activist.

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Mary McLeod Bethune shares a July 10 birthday with Nikola Tesla, John Calvin, and Marcel Proust.

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Among Social Activists

Among social activists, Mary McLeod Bethune ranks 458 out of 840. Before her are Henriette Herz, Lynching of Jesse Washington, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Jason Moore, Phyllis Schlafly, and Bogaletch Gebre. After her are Carlos Fonseca, Iosif Grigulevich, Petro Grigorenko, Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, Giuseppe Pinelli, and Gotō Shōjirō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Mary McLeod Bethune ranks 137. Before her are Leopold Andrian, Vladimir Filatov, Federico Laredo Brú, Herbert Jamison, Oleksandr Murashko, and George Larner. After her are Émile Delchambre, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Jean Cau, Maurice Hemelsoet, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Adolfo Díaz. Among people deceased in 1955, Mary McLeod Bethune ranks 120. Before her are Karl Hofer, František Janda-Suk, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Willi Baumeister, Tom Moore, and Constance Collier. After her are Leonardus Nardus, James Jones, Arthur Shaw, Louis Leon Thurstone, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, and Johan Jarlén.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary McLeod Bethune ranks 6,449 out of 20,380. Before her are Don McNeill (1918), Al Ernest Garcia (1887), Richard Powers (1957), Chief Joseph (1840), Eva Cassidy (1963), and Horace W. Babcock (1912). After her are Louis Brandeis (1856), Eric Heiden (1958), Donald Byrd (1932), Mark Tobey (1890), Edward Douglass White (1845), and Sarah Yorke Jackson (1803).

Among Social Activists In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Mary McLeod Bethune ranks 62. Before her are Nat Turner (1800), Afeni Shakur (1947), Otto Warmbier (1994), Anna Louise Strong (1885), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), and Phyllis Schlafly (1924). After her are Eugene V. Debs (1855), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Pretty Boy Floyd (1904), Tarana Burke (1973), and Sam Childers (1963).

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