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Booker T. Washington

1856 - 1915

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Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite. Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed when U.S. troops reached the area during the Civil War. As a young man, Booker T. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Booker T. Washington has received more than 7,511,126 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Booker T. Washington is the 2,867th most popular writer (down from 2,486th in 2019), the 3,741st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,185th in 2019) and the 338th most popular American Writer.

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  • 7.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Booker T. Washington ranks 2,867 out of 5,755. Before him are Sven Lindqvist, John Banville, Antonio de Guevara, Jeppe Aakjær, Nathan Birnbaum, and Mika Antić. After him are Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Alois Musil, Hervé Bazin, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jónas Hallgrímsson, and Édouard Chavannes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Booker T. Washington ranks 67. Before him are José Batlle y Ordóñez, J.-H. Rosny aîné, Giuseppe Martucci, Alexander Izvolsky, Semyon Alapin, and Carl Peters. After him are Karl Krumbacher, Eduardo Dato, Yu Kil-chun, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Vasily Rozanov, and Anna Elizabeth Klumpke. Among people deceased in 1915, Booker T. Washington ranks 58. Before him are Adolphe Pégoud, Carlos Finlay, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Arthur Hughes, Pierre-Émile Martin, and Daniel Varoujan. After him are Eugène Jansson, Fanny Crosby, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Serafino Vannutelli, Elbert Hubbard, and Ruben Sevak.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Booker T. Washington ranks 3,741 out of 18,182. Before him are Alexandra Daddario (1986), Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), James Marsden (1973), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Thomas Sowell (1930), and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887). After him are Eric Singer (1958), Marie Tharp (1920), Majel Barrett (1932), James Burton (1939), Edwin Moses (1955), and Gabriel Almond (1911).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Booker T. Washington ranks 338. Before him are H.D. (1886), Leon Uris (1924), Andre Norton (1912), Lucia Berlin (1936), Katherine Jackson (1930), and James A. Michener (1907). After him are Andrea Dworkin (1946), Philip Arthur Fisher (1907), William Goldman (1931), Anne Applebaum (1964), Gary Snyder (1930), and Neal Stephenson (1959).

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