1939 - Today
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. It occurred nine months before the similar, more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.Colvin was one of four plaintiffs in the first federal court case filed by civil rights attorney Fred Gray on February 1, 1956 as Browder v. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claudette Colvin has received more than 2,672,499 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Claudette Colvin is the 358th most popular social activist (up from 361st in 2019), the 4,762nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,375th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Claudette Colvin ranks 358 out of 538. Before her are William Howard Russell, Deniz Gezmiş, Mary Dyer, Mary Toft, Dorothy Day, and Jerry Rubin. After her are Harry Wu, Leona Vicario, Karl Ludwig Sand, Malala Yousafzai, Mathew Brady, and Ivan Bolotnikov.
1820 - 1907
HPI: 50.01
Rank: 352
1947 - 1972
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 353
1611 - 1660
HPI: 49.96
Rank: 354
1703 - 1763
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 355
1897 - 1980
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 356
1938 - 1994
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 357
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 358
1937 - 2016
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 359
1789 - 1842
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 360
1795 - 1820
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 361
1997 - Present
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 362
1822 - 1896
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 363
1600 - 1608
HPI: 49.68
Rank: 364
Among people born in 1939, Claudette Colvin ranks 258. Before her are Fahrudin Jusufi, Ivar Jacobson, Chögyam Trungpa, Sandro Salvadore, Igor Chislenko, and Yury Glazkov. After her are Stephen Cook, Gösta Ekman, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Judy Collins, Norma Cappagli, and José Emilio Pacheco.
1939 - 2019
HPI: 50.13
Rank: 252
1939 - Present
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 253
1939 - 1987
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 254
1939 - 2007
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 255
1939 - 1994
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 256
1939 - 2008
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 257
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 258
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 259
1939 - 2017
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 260
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.77
Rank: 261
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 262
1939 - 2020
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 263
1939 - 2014
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 264
Among people born in United States, Claudette Colvin ranks 4,762 out of 18,182. Before her are Ram Dass (1931), Kevin Schwantz (1964), Fred Gwynne (1926), Gene Wolfe (1931), Megan Thee Stallion (1995), and Steve Kanaly (1946). After her are Carl Spaatz (1891), Steven Zaillian (1953), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Big Joe Turner (1911), Muse Watson (1948), and George Kingsley Zipf (1902).
1931 - 2019
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 4,756
1964 - Present
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 4,757
1926 - 1993
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 4,758
1931 - 2019
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 4,759
1995 - Present
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 4,760
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 4,761
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 4,762
1891 - 1974
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 4,763
1953 - Present
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 4,764
1867 - 1951
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 4,765
1911 - 1985
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 4,766
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 4,767
1902 - 1950
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 4,768
Among social activists born in United States, Claudette Colvin ranks 45. Before her are Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), Edna Parker (1893), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), Lee Radziwill (1933), Dorothy Day (1897), and Jerry Rubin (1938). After her are Mathew Brady (1822), Louise Bryant (1885), Lester R. Brown (1934), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), Samantha Smith (1972), and Sam Childers (1963).
1899 - 2016
HPI: 50.59
Rank: 39
1893 - 2008
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 40
1832 - 1919
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 41
1933 - 2019
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 42
1897 - 1980
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 43
1938 - 1994
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 44
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 45
1822 - 1896
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 46
1885 - 1936
HPI: 49.62
Rank: 47
1934 - Present
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 48
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.13
Rank: 49
1972 - 1985
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 50
1963 - Present
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 51