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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 the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. He was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith. Evers, a decorated U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Medgar Evers has received more than 5,382,193 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Medgar Evers is the 437th most popular social activist (down from 333rd in 2019), the 6,629th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,847th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 46.53

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  • 25

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  • 1.60

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  • 4.48

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Medgar Evers ranks 437 out of 538. Before him are Bagha Jatin, Gunnar Sønsteby, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Charu Majumdar, William Luther Pierce, and Octavia Hill. After him are Eugénie Cotton, Helene Stöcker, Megumi Yokota, Stokely Carmichael, Devdas Gandhi, and Mohammad Ali Jauhar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Medgar Evers ranks 326. Before him are Juan Francisco Lombardo, Francesco Colasuonno, Arne Åhman, José Parra Martínez, Alain Peyrefitte, and Luis Alberto Monge. After him are Jean Cau, Toma Caragiu, Steve Forrest, Károly Makk, Darry Cowl, and Dany Dauberson. Among people deceased in 1963, Medgar Evers ranks 145. Before him are Artur Lemba, Arthur Jonath, Henri Masson, Al St. John, Hubert Pierlot, and Gjorgji Abadžiev. After him are Jens Hundseid, María Guadalupe García Zavala, David Keilin, Adrien Rommel, Abram Deborin, and Oskari Tokoi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Medgar Evers ranks 6,629 out of 18,182. Before him are Tom Verlaine (1949), Beverly Sills (1929), Steve Allen (1921), Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923), John Warnock (1940), and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954). After him are Michael Angelo Batio (1956), Sting (1959), Neal E. Miller (1909), Dave Bing (1943), Robert Guillaume (1927), and Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Medgar Evers ranks 66. Before him are Cesar Chavez (1927), Leonard Peltier (1944), Lucy Stone (1818), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), Ruby Bridges (1954), and William Luther Pierce (1933). After him are Bill Haywood (1869), Sumner Paine (1868), Ralph Abernathy (1926), Lucy Parsons (1853), James Meredith (1933), and Betty Ong (1956).

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