SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Coretta Scott King

1927 - 2006

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Coretta Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968. As an advocate for African-American equality, she was a leader for the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Coretta Scott King has received more than 5,994,047 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Coretta Scott King is the 282nd most popular social activist (down from 248th in 2019), the 3,135th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,878th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 54.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Coretta Scott King ranks 282 out of 840. Before her are Mahadev Govind Ranade, Melchora Aquino, Leymah Gbowee, Gustave Moynier, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, and Allan Octavian Hume. After her are Christabel Pankhurst, Mentor of Rhodes, Jesse Jackson, Cho Man-sik, David Frankfurter, and Policarpa Salavarrieta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Coretta Scott King ranks 141. Before her are Vladimir Ilyushin, Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Gordon Cooper, L. K. Advani, Chandra Shekhar, and Althea Gibson. After her are Allan Kaprow, Gae Aulenti, William Labov, Roger Walkowiak, Stanisław Kania, and Christian Marquand. Among people deceased in 2006, Coretta Scott King ranks 125. Before her are William Auld, Prince George William of Hanover, Vera Aceva, George Koval, Esther Lederberg, and Faas Wilkes. After her are Allan Kaprow, Marie Tharp, Ferenc Szusza, W. Montgomery Watt, Johannes Willebrands, and Wilson Pickett.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Coretta Scott King ranks 3,135 out of 20,380. Before her are DMX (1970), Lauren Hutton (1943), Abel Ferrara (1951), James Montgomery Flagg (1877), Richard Wright (1908), and John Marshall (1755). After her are Edwin Moses (1955), Allan Kaprow (1927), John B. Kelly Sr. (1889), Marie Tharp (1920), Victoria Woodhull (1838), and Dean Rusk (1909).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Coretta Scott King ranks 30. Before her are Margaret Sanger (1879), Gloria Steinem (1934), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), David Lane (1938), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), and Russell Means (1939). After her are Jesse Jackson (1941), Amelia Bloomer (1818), Abbie Hoffman (1936), Edna Parker (1893), Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), and Sumner Paine (1868).

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