SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mamie Till

1921 - 2003

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Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist. She was the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old youth murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after accusations that he had whistled at a white grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant. For Emmett's funeral in Chicago, Mamie Till insisted that the coffin containing his body be left open, because, in her words, "I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby." Born in Mississippi, Carthan and her family moved to the Chicago area during the "Great Migration". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mamie Till has received more than 2,363,654 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mamie Till is the 558th most popular social activist, the 8,528th most popular biography from United States and the 79th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mamie Till ranks 558 out of 840. Before her are Veerappan, Lida Heymann, Yelizaveta Chaikina, Eoin O'Duffy, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, and Bill Haywood. After her are Vladimir Kara-Murza, Usha Mehta, Urani Rumbo, Mina Ahadi, Ralph Abernathy, and Emily Hobhouse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Mamie Till ranks 372. Before her are William Alston, Susan Peters, Cliff Bourland, Rufina Gasheva, Paul Barth, and Lloyd Bentsen. After her are Petter Hugsted, Regina Bianchi, Pancho Segura, Prvoslav Mihajlović, Seymour Benzer, and Sam Tingle. Among people deceased in 2003, Mamie Till ranks 292. Before her are Suzy Parker, German Sveshnikov, Koloman Sokol, Gusztáv Juhász, Dave DeBusschere, and Willem Slijkhuis. After her are Robert John Braidwood, Halima Nosirova, Donald Regan, Robert Atkins, Anne Gwynne, and German Apukhtin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mamie Till ranks 8,528 out of 20,380. Before her are Rashida Jones (1976), Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852), Julie Taymor (1952), Terry Kinney (1954), Bukka White (1906), and Jimmy Miller (1942). After her are Gail Russell (1924), Clarke Peters (1952), John Wanamaker (1838), Tipper Gore (1948), Lee Ranaldo (1956), and Rebecca Miller (1962).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Mamie Till ranks 79. Before her are Ruby Bridges (1954), Martin Luther King Sr. (1899), Abraham Flexner (1866), Karen Silkwood (1946), Roger Stone (1952), and Bill Haywood (1869). After her are Ralph Abernathy (1926), Dolores Huerta (1930), Sam Childers (1963), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), Albert Parsons (1848), and James Meredith (1933).

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