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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 6,736,942 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ruby Bridges is the 427th most popular social activist (down from 377th in 2019), the 6,236th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,064th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 6.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Ruby Bridges ranks 427 out of 538. Before her are İbrahim Kaypakkaya, Har Dayal, Lucy Stone, Mumia Abu-Jamal, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, and Neerja Bhanot. After her are Jack Sheppard, David Reimer, Joseph Wresinski, Bagha Jatin, Gunnar Sønsteby, and Olga Lepeshinskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ruby Bridges ranks 265. Before her are Don Wilson, Patricia McPherson, René Girard, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Guy Kawasaki, and Trevor Rabin. After her are David Keith, Dragan Vasiljković, Lawrence Summers, Adrian Vandenberg, Ray Parker Jr., and Hansi Hinterseer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ruby Bridges ranks 6,236 out of 18,182. Before her are Mandy Moore (1984), Louise Dresser (1878), John Myung (1967), Jon Turteltaub (1963), John Bell Hood (1831), and Sylvanus Morley (1883). After her are David Keith (1954), Jack Parsons (1914), Ferde Grofé (1892), Jill Tarter (1944), Harry Beaumont (1888), and Mark Boone Junior (1955).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Ruby Bridges ranks 64. Before her are Otto Warmbier (1994), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Cesar Chavez (1927), Leonard Peltier (1944), Lucy Stone (1818), and Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954). After her are William Luther Pierce (1933), Medgar Evers (1925), Bill Haywood (1869), Sumner Paine (1868), Ralph Abernathy (1926), and Lucy Parsons (1853).

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