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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Fred Hampton

1948 - 1969

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Fredrick "Chairman Fred" Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist. He came to prominence in his late teens and very 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 9,442,162 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Fred Hampton is the 392nd most popular social activist (up from 456th in 2019), the 5,393rd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,051st in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 48.64

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  • 20

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  • 2.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Fred Hampton ranks 392 out of 538Before him are Sam Childers, Giuseppe Pinelli, Nikolay Bauman, Lev Chernyi, Phyllis Schlafly, and Hamida Javanshir. After him are Meena Keshwar Kamal, Malalai of Maiwand, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Amal Clooney, Yagan, and John Peters Humphrey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Fred Hampton ranks 337Before him are Chester Thompson, Meir Shalev, Margaret Weis, Norbert Lammert, Clarence Thomas, and Alexander McCall Smith. After him are Ana Mendieta, Jean-Pierre Monseré, Marisol, Robert Holdstock, Donald Fagen, and Kate Pierson. Among people deceased in 1969, Fred Hampton ranks 135Before him are Lajos Czeizler, Juan Modesto, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Gabriel Chevallier, Giuseppe Pinelli, and Silvestre Igoa. After him are Simon Vratsian, Giovanni Martinelli, Karl Freund, Gunnar Andersson, Julius Saaristo, and Georges Ronsse.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fred Hampton ranks 5,393 out of 18,182Before him are Rey Mysterio (1974), William Cohen (1940), Frederic Clements (1874), Francis Collins (1950), Millie Perkins (1938), and Roy Haynes (1925). After him are James Farentino (1938), Bessie Love (1898), Phyllis Smith (1951), Alexandra Hedison (1969), Jennifer Hudson (1981), and Joe Spano (1946).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Fred Hampton ranks 53Before him are Louise Bryant (1885), Lester R. Brown (1934), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), Samantha Smith (1972), Sam Childers (1963), and Phyllis Schlafly (1924). After him are Anna Louise Strong (1885), Afeni Shakur (1947), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Eugene V. Debs (1855), Otto Warmbier (1994), and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826).