SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Emmett Till

1941 - 1955

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Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American youth who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emmett Till has received more than 24,502,626 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Emmett Till is the 178th most popular social activist (up from 292nd in 2019), the 1,621st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,565th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 25M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emmett Till ranks 178 out of 840. Before him are Ilya Ulyanov, Sojourner Truth, Chico Mendes, Judas of Galilee, Billy Milligan, and Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov. After him are Yelena Bonner, Jan Karski, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Leopold Trepper, Kailash Satyarthi, and Huda Sha'arawi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Emmett Till ranks 109. Before him are Grace Zabriskie, Liamine Zéroual, Senta Berger, Lella Lombardi, Louis Ignarro, and Bertrand Tavernier. After him are David Warner, Roger Lemerre, Ann-Margret, Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Wilson, and Abdelkader Bensalah. Among people deceased in 1955, Emmett Till ranks 42. Before him are Alexander Wienerberger, John Mott, Alexandros Papagos, Yves Tanguy, Theda Bara, and Henri Delaunay. After him are Olga Khokhlova, Otto Braun, Nicolas de Staël, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Archie Hahn, and Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emmett Till ranks 1,621 out of 20,380. Before him are Cliff Robertson (1923), Edward James Olmos (1947), Karen Allen (1951), Frederick Herzberg (1923), Billy Milligan (1955), and John C. Mather (1946). After him are Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), Kirk Hammett (1962), Mariah Carey (1969), Helen Hayes (1900), Richard Smalley (1943), and John Sturges (1910).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Emmett Till ranks 21. Before him are Betty Ford (1918), George Stinney (1929), John Brown (1800), Frederick Douglass (1818), Sojourner Truth (1797), and Billy Milligan (1955). After him are Edward Snowden (1983), Fred Phelps (1929), Margaret Sanger (1879), Gloria Steinem (1934), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), and David Lane (1938).

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