SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Fred Hampton

1948 - 1969

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Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist and revolutionary socialist. He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. He founded the anti-racist, anti-classist Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (which organized poor whites), and the Young Lords (which organized Puerto Ricans), and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fred Hampton is the 568th most popular social activist (down from 492nd in 2019), the 9,178th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,854th in 2019) and the 79th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Fred Hampton ranks 568 out of 840. Before him are David Reimer, Devdas Gandhi, Ramdas Gandhi, Josefa Francisco, Bruno Manser, and Manilal Gandhi. After him are Bill Haywood, Bayard Rustin, Henry Spira, Walter Reuther, Lizzie Velásquez, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Fred Hampton ranks 580. Before him are Ever Almeida, John Foxx, Richard Sinclair, Garrick Ohlsson, Ibrahim Kuni, and Colleen Atwood. After him are Josef Ackermann, Nick Mancuso, Yasumasa Kanada, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Jürgen Marcus, and Ben Burtt. Among people deceased in 1969, Fred Hampton ranks 217. Before him are Károly Dietz, Stratis Myrivilis, Ramdas Gandhi, Skip James, Barton MacLane, and Corneliu Robe. After him are Vilho Väisälä, Vernon Duke, Hans Deppe, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Bess Meredyth, and Kazimierz Wierzyński.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fred Hampton ranks 9,180 out of 20,380. Before him are Clu Gulager (1928), Florence B. Seibert (1897), Richard Gant (1944), Chanel Preston (1985), Gladys George (1904), and Francis Parker Yockey (1917). After him are Russell Simpson (1880), Jay Silvester (1937), Dickey Betts (1943), Cliff Bourland (1921), John N. Bahcall (1934), and Robert Nisbet (1913).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Fred Hampton ranks 79. Before him are Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), Abraham Flexner (1866), Dorothea Dix (1802), Lucy Parsons (1853), Roger Stone (1952), and Jerry Rubin (1938). After him are Bill Haywood (1869), Bayard Rustin (1912), Walter Reuther (1907), Lizzie Velásquez (1989), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), and Ella Baker (1903).

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