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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 an ambulance service. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Huey P. Newton has received more than 6,331,751 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Huey P. Newton is the 319th most popular social activist (up from 338th in 2019), the 4,036th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,903rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Huey P. Newton ranks 319 out of 538. Before him are Toktogul Satylganov, Lampião, Melchora Aquino, Frank País, Surya Sen, and Christabel Pankhurst. After him are Lempira, Vasily Ignatenko, Hector Hodler, Kazimierz Świątek, Osman Kavala, and Germaine Tillion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Huey P. Newton ranks 280. Before him are Michael G. Wilson, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Richard Roundtree, B. J. Thomas, Michael Nesmith, and Gunilla Bergström. After him are Jean Ping, Gianfranco Ravasi, Vera Alentova, Andrew Robinson, Roberto Perfumo, and Toyohiro Akiyama. Among people deceased in 1989, Huey P. Newton ranks 123. Before him are Yūsaku Matsuda, Zinka Milanov, Maurice Evans, Leyla Mammadbeyova, Anthony Quayle, and Colin Clark. After him are Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Edoardo Amaldi, Harold Jeffreys, Sourou-Migan Apithy, Kaj Franck, and Imre Németh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Huey P. Newton ranks 4,036 out of 18,182. Before him are Gregory Benford (1941), Earl Hines (1903), Dimebag Darrell (1966), Nick Cravat (1912), Maggie Grace (1983), and Jane Kaczmarek (1955). After him are Judy Chicago (1939), John Singleton Copley (1738), Jennifer Warnes (1947), Harry Langdon (1884), Paul Mazursky (1930), and Vincent Gallo (1961).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Huey P. Newton ranks 34. Before him are Marsha P. Johnson (1945), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), Jesse Jackson (1941), Clara Barton (1821), Russell Means (1939), and Emmett Till (1941). After him are Alice Paul (1885), Lucretia Mott (1793), Amelia Bloomer (1818), Black Elk (1863), Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), and Edna Parker (1893).

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