SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

1890 - 1964

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (August 7, 1890 – September 5, 1964) was an American labor leader, feminist, and communist activist. In the early years of her activist career, she was an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (known also as the IWW or the Wobblies). During World War I she founded the Workers Defense Union (WDU), to advocate for anyone arrested and imprisoned for violating the Espionage Act while championing the cause of labor. In 1920, Flynn helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is the 576th most popular social activist (down from 572nd in 2024), the 9,367th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,140th in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ranks 576 out of 840. Before her are Fred Hampton, Bill Haywood, Bayard Rustin, Henry Spira, Walter Reuther, and Lizzie Velásquez. After her are Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, Irene Fernandez, Thomas Clarkson, Stan Swamy, Emily Hobhouse, and Elvia Carrillo Puerto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ranks 219. Before her are Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Béla Las-Torres, Arthur O'Hara Wood, Stratis Myrivilis, Robert Ripley, and Edward Arnold. After her are Stanley Holloway, Verna Felton, Néstor Guillén, Colin Carruthers, Princess Victoria Margaret of Prussia, and Bess Meredyth. Among people deceased in 1964, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ranks 177. Before her are Carlos Hevia, Eberardo Villalobos, José María Belauste, János Urányi, James Chapin, and Lucky Dube. After her are Jack Teagarden, Fred Tootell, Robert Warwick, Guru Dutt, C. J. Hambro, and Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ranks 9,371 out of 20,380. Before her are Amy Steel (1960), Daphne Zuniga (1962), John William Casilear (1811), Steve Railsback (1945), Judith Barsi (1978), Paul Bearer (1954), Robert Pastorelli (1954), and Noah Hathaway (1971). After her are Jeanne Cooper (1928), Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851), Jacqueline Mars (1939), and Jordan Peele (1979).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ranks 85. Before her are Jerry Rubin (1938), Fred Hampton (1948), Bill Haywood (1869), Bayard Rustin (1912), Walter Reuther (1907), and Lizzie Velásquez (1989). After her are Ella Baker (1903), Albert Parsons (1848), Ralph Abernathy (1926), Mamie Till (1921), Sylvia Rivera (1951), and Martin Luther King III (1957).

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