SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Medgar Evers

1925 - 1963

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Medgar Wiley Evers (; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. Evers, a United States Army veteran who served in World War II, was engaged in efforts to overturn racial segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the segregation of public facilities, and expand opportunities for African Americans, including the enforcement of voting rights when he was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith. A college graduate, Evers became active in the civil rights movement in the 1950s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Medgar Evers has received more than 5,764,042 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Medgar Evers is the 476th most popular social activist (down from 437th in 2019), the 6,513th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,615th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Medgar Evers ranks 476 out of 840. Before him are Eugen Drewermann, Giuseppe Impastato, Ted Grant, Parashqevi Qiriazi, Ela Bhatt, and Joseph Wresinski. After him are Hereward the Wake, Phyllis Schlafly, Danuta Wałęsa, Har Dayal, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, and David Sassoon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Medgar Evers ranks 338. Before him are John Baptist Wu, Pyotr Todorovsky, James Salter, Iwao Takamoto, Armand Razafindratandra, and James Mellaart. After him are Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, Wolfgang Unzicker, Klara Luchko, Antonio Puchades, Gunther Schuller, and Dany Dauberson. Among people deceased in 1963, Medgar Evers ranks 158. Before him are Mohammad Ali Bogra, Carl Skottsberg, Henri Masson, Joseph Sweeney, Learco Guerra, and Vasyl Barvinsky. After him are Frans Blom, István Somodi, Hugh O'Flaherty, Al St. John, Ernst Wetter, and József Turay.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Medgar Evers ranks 6,513 out of 20,380. Before him are Cornel West (1953), Brian Hyland (1943), Sue Grafton (1940), Archie Mayo (1891), R. J. Palacio (1963), and Kurt Angle (1968). After him are Bob Backlund (1949), Betty Gilpin (1986), Irwin Allen (1916), John Slattery (1962), Will Keith Kellogg (1860), and Joey Bishop (1918).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Medgar Evers ranks 63. Before him are Anna Louise Strong (1885), Cesar Chavez (1927), Grace Sherwood (1660), Lee Radziwill (1933), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), and Lucy Stone (1818). After him are Phyllis Schlafly (1924), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), Fred Hampton (1948), Pretty Boy Floyd (1904), Dorothea Dix (1802), and William Luther Pierce (1933).

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