SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Claudette Colvin

1939 - Today

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Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claudette Colvin has received more than 2,815,624 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Claudette Colvin is the 385th most popular social activist (down from 358th in 2019), the 4,722nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,750th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 51.10

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  • 24

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  • 2.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Claudette Colvin ranks 385 out of 840. Before her are Marie Popelin, Germaine Tillion, Pingali Venkayya, Anita Augspurg, Otto Warmbier, and Ivan Bolotnikov. After her are Azucena Villaflor, Alice Paul, Toyohiko Kagawa, Chen Qimei, Madan Lal Dhingra, and Micaela Bastidas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Claudette Colvin ranks 278. Before her are James Galway, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, A. R. Penck, Zenon Grocholewski, Samih al-Qasim, and Giorgio Ferrini. After her are Robert Waseige, Peter Revson, Khin Nyunt, Oʻtkir Sultonov, José Emilio Pacheco, and Samad Behrangi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Claudette Colvin ranks 4,722 out of 20,380. Before her are Gene Tunney (1897), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Thomas Friedman (1953), Robert Leckie (1920), Stormy Daniels (1979), and William Hoyt (1875). After her are David Geffen (1943), Bill Goldberg (1966), John Singleton Copley (1738), IShowSpeed (2005), Willie Garson (1964), and Peter Revson (1939).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Claudette Colvin ranks 43. Before her are Dorothy Day (1897), Black Elk (1863), Clara Barton (1821), Lucretia Mott (1793), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), and Otto Warmbier (1994). After her are Alice Paul (1885), Huey P. Newton (1942), Bayard Rustin (1912), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), Mathew Brady (1822), and Louise Bryant (1885).

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