SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Emmett Till

1941 - 1955

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Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American youth, who was 14 years old when he was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement. Till was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emmett Till is the 257th most popular social activist (down from 179th in 2019), the 3,087th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,621st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emmett Till ranks 257 out of 840. Before him are Leymah Gbowee, Edward Snowden, Djamila Bouhired, Haim Arlosoroff, Zinaida Portnova, and Attica. After him are Coretta Scott King, Édouard René de Laboulaye, Eunus, Nancy Wake, Vera Figner, and C. Rajagopalachari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Emmett Till ranks 183. Before him are Na Moon-hee, Fritz Wepper, Infante Alfonso of Spain, Eleni Karaindrou, Andrei Mironov, and Denys Arcand. After him are Michael Apted, Maurice White, Walid Muallem, Esther Ofarim, Salvador Sadurní, and Umberto Bossi. Among people deceased in 1955, Emmett Till ranks 66. Before him are Ivan Šubašić, Tommy Burns, Adolfo de la Huerta, Emma Jung, Tin Ujević, and Konstantin Hierl. After him are Antanas Merkys, Robert W. Wood, Reiner Stahel, Louis Lachenal, Carl Milles, and Arthur Tansley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emmett Till ranks 3,087 out of 20,380. Before him are Chris Rock (1965), Lewis Mumford (1895), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), Craig Venter (1946), Jerry Fodor (1935), and Sugar Ray Leonard (1956). After him are Graham Allison (1940), Laurie Holden (1969), Morton Feldman (1926), Harold Bloom (1930), Jack Nance (1943), and Saul Bass (1920).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Emmett Till ranks 32. Before him are Billy Milligan (1955), Sojourner Truth (1797), Fred Phelps (1929), Martin Luther King Sr. (1899), Gloria Steinem (1934), and Edward Snowden (1983). After him are Coretta Scott King (1927), Edna Parker (1893), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), Amelia Bloomer (1818), Louise Bryant (1885), and Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899).

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