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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mumia Abu-Jamal

1954 - Today

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Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. While on death row, he has written and commented on the criminal justice system in the United States. After numerous appeals, his death penalty sentence was overturned by a federal court. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mumia Abu-Jamal has received more than 2,449,776 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Mumia Abu-Jamal is the 424th most popular social activist (down from 381st in 2019), the 6,169th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,229th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mumia Abu-Jamal ranks 424 out of 538. Before him are Leonard Peltier, Josué de Castro, Nadia Murad, İbrahim Kaypakkaya, Har Dayal, and Lucy Stone. After him are José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Neerja Bhanot, Ruby Bridges, Jack Sheppard, David Reimer, and Joseph Wresinski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Mumia Abu-Jamal ranks 262. Before him are Igor Krutoy, Dai Sijie, Sonia Sotomayor, Don Wilson, Patricia McPherson, and René Girard. After him are Guy Kawasaki, Trevor Rabin, Ruby Bridges, David Keith, Dragan Vasiljković, and Lawrence Summers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mumia Abu-Jamal ranks 6,169 out of 18,182. Before him are Amy Ryan (1969), Patricia McPherson (1954), Zoot Sims (1925), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Carmen Basilio (1927), and Margaret O'Brien (1937). After him are Colleen Atwood (1948), Ollie Johnston (1912), Guy Kawasaki (1954), Cassandra Peterson (1951), Peter Norton (1943), and Anna Harrison (1775).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Mumia Abu-Jamal ranks 63. Before him are Eugene V. Debs (1855), Otto Warmbier (1994), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Cesar Chavez (1927), Leonard Peltier (1944), and Lucy Stone (1818). After him are Ruby Bridges (1954), William Luther Pierce (1933), Medgar Evers (1925), Bill Haywood (1869), Sumner Paine (1868), and Ralph Abernathy (1926).

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