SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Huey P. Newton

1942 - 1989

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Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African American revolutionary and political activist who founded the Black Panther Party. He ran the party as its first leader and crafted its ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale in 1966. Under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs (renamed survival programs in 1971) including food banks, medical clinics, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing cooperatives, and their own ambulance service. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Huey P. Newton has received more than 6,794,896 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Huey P. Newton is the 392nd most popular social activist (down from 319th in 2019), the 4,782nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,025th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Huey P. Newton ranks 392 out of 840. Before him are Azucena Villaflor, Alice Paul, Toyohiko Kagawa, Chen Qimei, Madan Lal Dhingra, and Micaela Bastidas. After him are Deniz Gezmiş, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Bayard Rustin, Evelyn Mase, Inge Scholl, and James Guillaume.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Huey P. Newton ranks 332. Before him are Bill Ivy, Erika Blanc, Chantal Goya, Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, Adolf Ogi, and Dick Parry. After him are Phil Esposito, Kenneth Welsh, János Farkas, Thomas Hammarberg, Ilija Pantelić, and Arthur Brown. Among people deceased in 1989, Huey P. Newton ranks 156. Before him are Thorkild Hansen, Gilles Andriamahazo, Nikolai Grinko, Hilmar Baunsgaard, Luiz Gonzaga, and Henri Sauguet. After him are Jean-Michel Charlier, Anton Diffring, János Farkas, Kaj Franck, Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, and Tirumalai Krishnamacharya.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Huey P. Newton ranks 4,782 out of 20,380. Before him are Winfield Scott Hancock (1824), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Mira Sorvino (1967), Lon L. Fuller (1902), Swoosie Kurtz (1944), and John Mayer (1977). After him are Jon Hamm (1971), James A. Michener (1907), Craig Mello (1960), Og Mandino (1923), Lauren German (1978), and William Clark (1770).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Huey P. Newton ranks 45. Before him are Clara Barton (1821), Lucretia Mott (1793), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), Otto Warmbier (1994), Claudette Colvin (1939), and Alice Paul (1885). After him are Bayard Rustin (1912), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), Mathew Brady (1822), Louise Bryant (1885), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), and Samantha Smith (1972).

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