SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mamie Till

1921 - 2003

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Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003), an American educator and civil rights activist, was the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old youth murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after being accused of offending a white grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mamie Till is the 600th most popular social activist (down from 560th in 2024), the 10,271st most popular biography from United States (down from 8,527th in 2019) and the 89th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mamie Till ranks 600 out of 840. Before her are Ralph Abernathy, Veerappan, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Berta Cáceres, Denis Goldberg, and Akira Amano. After her are Luisa Cuesta, Hu Jia, Salih Mahmoud Osman, Sylvia Rivera, Shin Dong-hyuk, and Anna Aloys Henga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Mamie Till ranks 410. Before her are Big Walter Horton, Jacques Friedel, Bill Bright, Mohammad Mohammadullah, Kurt Marti, and Cliff Barker. After her are John Pritchard, Farley Mowat, Sam Tingle, Donald Campbell, Walter Mirisch, and Karel Husa. Among people deceased in 2003, Mamie Till ranks 324. Before her are Suzy Parker, Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Maurice Kouandété, Vladimir Bogomolov, Gene Anthony Ray, and Anne Gwynne. After her are Carol Shields, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Armand Borel, Vera Zorina, Dave DeBusschere, and Edward F. Moore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mamie Till ranks 10,273 out of 20,380. Before her are Josiah McCracken (1874), P. P. Arnold (1946), Steve Jablonsky (1970), Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850), Bryan Shelton (1965), and Anne Gwynne (1918). After her are Megan Mullally (1958), Robert Keith (1898), Pamela Melroy (1961), Rakim (1968), Calvin Smith (1961), and Carol Shields (1935).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Mamie Till ranks 89. Before her are Walter Reuther (1907), Lizzie Velásquez (1989), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), Ella Baker (1903), Albert Parsons (1848), and Ralph Abernathy (1926). After her are Sylvia Rivera (1951), Martin Luther King III (1957), Dolores Huerta (1930), Barbara Bush (1981), Yolanda King (1955), and James Meredith (1933).

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