SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Ella Baker

1903 - 1986

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Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades. In New York City and the South, she worked alongside some of the most noted civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ella Baker has received more than 1,151,787 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ella Baker is the 597th most popular social activist (down from 487th in 2019), the 10,060th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,693rd in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Ella Baker ranks 597 out of 840. Before her are Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, Ekaterina Karavelova, Aed Carabao, Mosab Hassan Yousef, Ryan White, and Elvia Carrillo Puerto. After her are Hu Jia, Jamnalal Bajaj, Ingrid Newkirk, Martin Luther King III, Lillian Wald, and Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Ella Baker ranks 336. Before her are Walter Weiler, Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Koto Matsudaira, Gejus van der Meulen, Jan van Diepenbeek, and Willi Multhaup. After her are Helena Nordheim, John Miller, Otto von Porat, Luther Adler, Warren Kealoha, and Lennox Berkeley. Among people deceased in 1986, Ella Baker ranks 276. Before her are Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Igor Tselovalnikov, Gardner Fox, Chuck McKinley, Domingo García, and John Braine. After her are Smita Patil, Eduardo Risso, James Gentle, Kate Smith, Emil Jónsson, and Edmund Rubbra.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ella Baker ranks 10,060 out of 20,380. Before her are Howard Baker (1925), Victoria Justice (1993), Siobhan Fallon Hogan (1961), Cheryl Studer (1955), Marla Gibbs (1931), and Ben Browder (1962). After her are Tony MacAlpine (1960), Joe Mantell (1915), David Smith (1906), Nick Chinlund (1961), Brad Mehldau (1970), and Sam Trammell (1969).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Ella Baker ranks 92. Before her are Sylvia Rivera (1951), Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861), Alva Belmont (1853), Katie Eder (1950), Andrea James (1967), and Ryan White (1971). After her are Martin Luther King III (1957), Lillian Wald (1867), Aaron Swartz (1986), Mario Savio (1942), Rachel Corrie (1979), and Betty Ong (1956).

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