SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Fred Hampton

1948 - 1969

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Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American Civil Rights revolutionary. He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fred Hampton has received more than 9,990,064 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Fred Hampton is the 491st most popular social activist (down from 392nd in 2019), the 6,855th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,381st in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 4.01

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Fred Hampton ranks 491 out of 840Before him are Ibrahim Zakzaky, Theodor Loos, Nelly Diener, Marianne Hainisch, Lucy Salani, and Meri Mangakāhia. After him are Raisa Aronova, Josué de Castro, Eugénie Cotton, Malalai of Maiwand, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Stokely Carmichael.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Fred Hampton ranks 450Before him are Jozef Čapkovič, Johan De Muynck, Big John Studd, Patrick Moraz, Kenney Jones, and Diane Ackerman. After him are Avery Brooks, Chantal Lauby, Ron Asheton, Richard Simmons, Robert Trump, and Johan Boskamp. Among people deceased in 1969, Fred Hampton ranks 173Before him are Miles Dempsey, Frederick Lane, Mildred Davis, Chang Taek-sang, Leigh Harline, and Zinaida Aksentyeva. After him are Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Saverio Ragno, Julius Katchen, Hagigat Rzayeva, Stijn Streuvels, and Jim Bellamy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fred Hampton ranks 6,855 out of 20,380Before him are Pamela Sue Martin (1953), Leslie Mann (1972), Marin Alsop (1956), C. I. Scofield (1843), Alan Freed (1921), and Johnny Mathis (1935). After him are Julian Steward (1902), Avery Brooks (1948), Mark Frost (1953), Lee Meriwether (1935), Vernon A. Walters (1917), and Mary Beth Hurt (1946).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Fred Hampton ranks 66Before him are Lee Radziwill (1933), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Lucy Stone (1818), Medgar Evers (1925), Phyllis Schlafly (1924), and Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954). After him are Pretty Boy Floyd (1904), Dorothea Dix (1802), William Luther Pierce (1933), Jerry Rubin (1938), Lucy Parsons (1853), and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842).