SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Malcolm X

1925 - 1965

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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American revolutionary and human rights activist who founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. (MMI) and the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). He was also a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. A spokesman and minister for the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1952 until 1964, after which he left, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the African American community. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 96 in 2024). Malcolm X is the 6th most popular social activist (down from 4th in 2024), the 26th most popular biography from United States (down from 21st in 2019) and the 2nd 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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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Malcolm X ranks 6 out of 840. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela. After him are Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Luxemburg, Jan Hus, Henry Dunant, Helen Keller, and Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Among people born in 1925, Malcolm X ranks 1. After him are Margaret Thatcher, Pol Pot, Barbara Bush, Richard Burton, B.B. King, Paul Newman, Yukio Mishima, Mahathir Mohamad, Patrice Lumumba, Robert Edwards, and Gilles Deleuze. Among people deceased in 1965, Malcolm X ranks 4. Before him are Winston Churchill, T. S. Eliot, and Le Corbusier. After him are Edward Victor Appleton, W. Somerset Maugham, Syngman Rhee, Albert Schweitzer, Farouk of Egypt, Martin Buber, Eli Cohen, and Hermann Staudinger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Malcolm X ranks 26 out of 20,380. Before him are Abraham Lincoln (1809), James K. Polk (1795), Steven Spielberg (1946), Elvis Presley (1935), T. S. Eliot (1888), and Grace Kelly (1929). After him are Ronald Reagan (1911), Bruce Lee (1940), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), George Washington (1732), John F. Kennedy (1917), and Joe Biden (1942).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Malcolm X ranks 2. Before him are Martin Luther King Jr. (1929). After him are Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Helen Keller (1880), Rosa Parks (1913), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Margaret Sanger (1879), Harriet Tubman (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Jody Williams (1950), and Jimmy Hoffa (1913).

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