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William Lloyd Garrison

1805 - 1879

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William Lloyd Garrison (December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which Garrison founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. He supported the rights of women and in the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement. Garrison promoted "no-governmentism", also known as "anarchism", and rejected the inherent validity of the American government on the basis that its engagement in war, imperialism, and slavery made it corrupt and tyrannical. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2024). William Lloyd Garrison is the 472nd most popular social activist (down from 448th in 2024), the 6,737th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,646th in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, William Lloyd Garrison ranks 472 out of 840. Before him are Saalumarada Thimmakka, Pjetër Arbnori, Surya Sen, Mary Edwards Walker, Nazik al-Abid, and Hereward the Wake. After him are Rajendra K. Pachauri, Donald Watson, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Sugathakumari, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Dewi Sartika.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, William Lloyd Garrison ranks 66. Before him are Manuel García, Rudolf Wagner, Victor Baltard, Tomás Villalba, Alexander Burnes, and Jean-Baptiste Nothomb. After him are Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Josef Danhauser, Michael Sars, Samuel Ryan Curtis, William Harrison Ainsworth, and Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg. Among people deceased in 1879, William Lloyd Garrison ranks 50. Before him are Lyuben Karavelov, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, Miguel Grau Seminario, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Édouard Spach, and Jakob Stämpfli. After him are Peter Michal Bohúň, Joseph Hooker, Edward Blore, László Paál, Peter Arnold Heise, and William Froude.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Lloyd Garrison ranks 6,740 out of 20,380. Before him are Rex Cawley (1940), Mark Boone Junior (1955), Stephen Gyllenhaal (1949), Irvin McDowell (1818), Mark Waters (1964), John Piper (1946), and Jean Shiley (1911). After him are Robert R. Wilson (1914), Zoë Kravitz (1988), Nas (1973), Robert Hays (1947), and Little Walter (1930).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, William Lloyd Garrison ranks 65. Before him are Anna Louise Strong (1885), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Phyllis Schlafly (1924), Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), Eugene V. Debs (1855), and Mary Edwards Walker (1832). After him are Pretty Boy Floyd (1904), Tarana Burke (1973), Sam Childers (1963), Assata Shakur (1947), Medgar Evers (1925), and Lucy Stone (1818).

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