SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Ruby Bridges

1954 - Today

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Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruby Bridges has received more than 7,167,885 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ruby Bridges is the 523rd most popular social activist (down from 427th in 2019), the 7,520th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,223rd in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Ruby Bridges ranks 523 out of 840. Before her are Grey Owl, Lucy Parsons, Fazu Aliyeva, Alfreda Markowska, Sakine Cansız, and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin. After her are Martin Luther King Sr., Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Doina Cornea, Ramdas Gandhi, Neerja Bhanot, and Dimitrana Ivanova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ruby Bridges ranks 372. Before her are Uli Stein, Dennis Johnson, Vasilis Hatzipanagis, Marie-Theres Nadig, Leonard Mlodinow, and Ravil Maganov. After her are Susan Kare, Arliss Howard, Christie Brinkley, Elliot Goldenthal, Tahar Djaout, and Zoran Simović.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ruby Bridges ranks 7,520 out of 20,380. Before her are Joseph Keller (1923), Schelte J. Bus (1956), Shirley Fry (1927), Charles F. Hockett (1916), Roscoe Lee Browne (1922), and Jeff Perry (1955). After her are Richard Bass (1929), Andy Roddick (1982), David Garrison (1952), Sonny Fortune (1939), Patricia Heaton (1958), and Theodore Long (1947).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Ruby Bridges ranks 73. Before her are Pretty Boy Floyd (1904), Dorothea Dix (1802), William Luther Pierce (1933), Jerry Rubin (1938), Lucy Parsons (1853), and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842). After her are Martin Luther King Sr. (1899), Abraham Flexner (1866), Karen Silkwood (1946), Roger Stone (1952), Bill Haywood (1869), and Mamie Till (1921).

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