SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Albert Parsons

1848 - 1887

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Albert Richard Parsons (June 20, 1848 – November 11, 1887) was a pioneering American socialist and later anarchist newspaper editor, orator, and labor activist. As a teenager, he served in the military force of the Confederate States of America in Texas, during the American Civil War. After the war, he settled in Texas, and became an activist for the rights of former slaves, and later a Republican official during Reconstruction. With his wife Lucy Parsons, he then moved to Chicago in 1873 and worked in newspapers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Parsons is the 589th most popular social activist (down from 580th in 2019), the 9,889th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,394th in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Albert Parsons ranks 589 out of 840. Before him are Eoin O'Duffy, Har Dayal, Osman Kavala, Grey Owl, Lucy Salani, and Asma Jahangir. After him are Madan Lal Dhingra, Felix Nartey, Ralph Abernathy, Veerappan, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, and Berta Cáceres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Albert Parsons ranks 113. Before him are Amos Burn, Eliodoro Villazón, Matthew Webb, Diederik Korteweg, Surendranath Banerjee, and Joel Chandler Harris. After him are W. G. Grace, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Ivan Yakovlev, Lewis Howard Latimer, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Louisa Lawson. Among people deceased in 1887, Albert Parsons ranks 61. Before him are Dorothea Dix, George Alexander Macfarren, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Semyon Nadson, Alfred Domett, and Balfour Stewart. After him are Elihu B. Washburne, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert M. T. Hunter, Daniel Manning, and Dinah Craik.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Albert Parsons ranks 9,891 out of 20,380. Before him are Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849), Fred M. Vinson (1890), Peggy Ann Garner (1932), Janice Rule (1931), Kevin Randleman (1971), and Samuel Garman (1843). After him are Lauren Ridloff (1978), Colin Campbell Cooper (1856), Bayley (1989), Troy Kotsur (1968), Mark Parkinson (1957), and Danny Ongais (1942).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Albert Parsons ranks 86. Before him are Bill Haywood (1869), Bayard Rustin (1912), Walter Reuther (1907), Lizzie Velásquez (1989), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), and Ella Baker (1903). After him are Ralph Abernathy (1926), Mamie Till (1921), Sylvia Rivera (1951), Martin Luther King III (1957), Dolores Huerta (1930), and Barbara Bush (1981).

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