SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Malcolm X

1925 - 1965

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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Malcolm spent his adolescence living in a series of foster homes or with relatives after his father's death and his mother's hospitalization. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Malcolm X has received more than 22,432,216 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Malcolm X is the 4th most popular social activist, the 12th most popular biography from United States (up from 17th in 2019) and the most popular American Social Activist.

Malcolm X is most famous for being a prominent African-American civil rights activist and minister of the Nation of Islam. He was assassinated in 1965 at the age of 39.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 91

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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The Assassination of Malcolm X: Ex-Undercover Officer Admits Role in FBI & Police Conspiracy
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The Legacies Of Sam Cooke, Muhammad Ali & Malcolm X
The movie 'One Night in Miami,' directed by Regina King, imagines the conversations between four Black icons in 1964: Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown and Malcolm X, on the night of Clay's surprise win over Sonny Liston. We listen back to archival interview…
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Malcolm X letter 'is FAKE' says daughter of NYPD cop 'behind deathbed note'
The note, said to be a deathbed confession by cop Ray Wood, claimed he was pressured by his supervisors to lure two members of the civil rights leader's security detail into committing crimes
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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Malcolm X ranks 4 out of 544. Before him are Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, and Mahatma Gandhi. After him are Rosa Luxemburg, Jan Hus, Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Dunant, Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, and Guy Fawkes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Malcolm X ranks 1. After him are Margaret Thatcher, Pol Pot, Richard Burton, Gilles Deleuze, Yukio Mishima, Paul Newman, Patrice Lumumba, Albert Bandura, Robert F. Kennedy, Zygmunt Bauman, and Alija Izetbegović. Among people deceased in 1965, Malcolm X ranks 2. Before him is Winston Churchill. After him are Le Corbusier, Albert Schweitzer, Syngman Rhee, Martin Buber, W. Somerset Maugham, Stan Laurel, Farouk of Egypt, Eli Cohen, T. S. Eliot, and Nat King Cole.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Malcolm X ranks 12 out of 15,968. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Ulysses S. Grant (1822), Abraham Lincoln (1809), Marilyn Monroe (1926), Sylvester Stallone (1946), and Steve Jobs (1955). After him are Elvis Presley (1935), Martin Van Buren (1782), John F. Kennedy (1917), Hillary Clinton (1947), Neil Armstrong (1930), and Steven Spielberg (1946).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Malcolm X ranks 1. After him are Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Helen Keller (1880), Rosa Parks (1913), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Jane Addams (1860), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Bugsy Siegel (1906), and John Brown (1800).

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