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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Emmett Till

1941 - 1955

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Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, 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. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement.Till was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emmett Till has received more than 23,486,134 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Emmett Till is the 292nd most popular social activist (down from 254th in 2019), the 3,575th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,241st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 52.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emmett Till ranks 292 out of 538Before him are Cho Man-sik, Cut Nyak Dhien, Meshadi Azizbekov, Allan Octavian Hume, Diana Budisavljević, and Dhondo Keshav Karve. After him are Abdallah ibn Yasin, Bhikaiji Cama, Kōtoku Shūsui, Ricardo Flores Magón, Túpac Katari, and Millicent Fawcett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Emmett Till ranks 218Before him are Carla Gravina, Boris Vallejo, Félix Rodríguez, Patricio Guzmán, Paul Kantner, and Harald Nielsen. After him are David Lewis, Robert Guéï, Leonid Kizim, George Pell, Josep Maria Fusté, and Walid Muallem. Among people deceased in 1955, Emmett Till ranks 80Before him are Horace McCoy, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Theodor Innitzer, Lloyd Bacon, and Louis Charles Breguet. After him are Arthur Bernardes, Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia, Isaak Dunayevsky, Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark, Ahmad Qavam, and Guy Ropartz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emmett Till ranks 3,575 out of 18,182Before him are Mary Tyler Moore (1936), R. Budd Dwyer (1939), Robert Ford (1862), Carla Gugino (1971), Judith Reisman (1935), and Kevin Sorbo (1958). After him are Bobby Seale (1936), Bruce Buck (1946), Evelyn McHale (1923), Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919), Larry Clark (1943), and Adam Baldwin (1962).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Emmett Till ranks 33Before him are Coretta Scott King (1927), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), Jesse Jackson (1941), Clara Barton (1821), and Russell Means (1939). After him are Huey P. Newton (1942), Alice Paul (1885), Lucretia Mott (1793), Amelia Bloomer (1818), Black Elk (1863), and Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899).