SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Dorothy Height

1912 - 2010

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Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an African-American civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. Height is credited as the first leader in the civil rights movement to recognize inequality for women and African Americans as problems that should be considered as a whole. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothy Height has received more than 739,498 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Dorothy Height is the 705th most popular social activist (down from 564th in 2019), the 14,411th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,023rd in 2019) and the 121st most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 740k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Dorothy Height ranks 705 out of 840. Before her are David Kato, Dick Gregory, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Grace Abbott, Joshua Wong, and Rameshwari Nehru. After her are Latifa Ibn Ziaten, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Enric Duran, Loujain al-Hathloul, Bill Ayers, and Judith Heumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Dorothy Height ranks 420. Before her are Frances Drake, Burkhard Gantenbein, Gerald Emmett Carter, Dane Clark, Joseph Parecattil, and Frank Lovejoy. After her are James Craig, Malika Pukhraj, Joan Davis, Fatima Massaquoi, and Bill Brown. Among people deceased in 2010, Dorothy Height ranks 479. Before her are Helen Wagner, Nodar Kumaritashvili, Janusz Kurtyka, Frank Giering, David Thompson, and Abdolmalek Rigi. After her are Larry Evans, Massamasso Tchangai, Nalini Jaywant, Mark Linkous, Ruth Park, and Frances Reid.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothy Height ranks 14,411 out of 20,380. Before her are Morgan Brittany (1951), Lillian Roth (1910), Daryl Sabara (1992), Junkyard Dog (1952), Nancy Lynch (1948), and Randy Travis (1959). After her are Frank Klepacki (1974), Frankie Carle (1903), Jerry Coyne (1949), Tom C. Clark (1899), James Duval (1972), and Obie Trice (1977).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Dorothy Height ranks 121. Before her are Wendell Phillips (1811), Walter Reuther (1907), Pauli Murray (1910), Edith Windsor (1929), Dick Gregory (1932), and Grace Abbott (1878). After her are Bill Ayers (1944), Judith Heumann (1947), Matthew Shepard (1976), Ronan Farrow (1987), Nils Muižnieks (1964), and Crystal Eastman (1881).

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