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Sojourner Truth

1797 - 1883

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Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sojourner Truth has received more than 4,997,732 page views. Her biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Sojourner Truth is the 205th most popular social activist (down from 185th in 2019), the 2,124th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,071st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sojourner Truth ranks 205 out of 538. Before her are Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, Stjepan Filipović, Serge Klarsfeld, Simon bar Giora, and Wat Tyler. After her are Guillaume Cale, Luisa Cuesta, Bernard II, Duke of Saxony, Hrant Dink, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, and Sergei Kovalev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Sojourner Truth ranks 27. Before her are George Tupou I, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, Manuela Sáenz, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Carl Gustaf Mosander, and Carlo Blasis. After her are Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Giuditta Pasta, Kamehameha II, Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, and Wilhelm Beer. Among people deceased in 1883, Sojourner Truth ranks 23. Before her are Pierre Auguste Cot, Friedrich von Flotow, Alexander Gorchakov, Édouard Roche, Ranavalona II, and Tự Đức. After her are Pertevniyal Sultan, Franz Doppler, Arnold Toynbee, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, Wilhelm Peters, and Ciprian Porumbescu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sojourner Truth ranks 2,124 out of 18,182. Before her are Jane Jacobs (1916), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Michael Emerson (1954), Paul Revere (1735), Roberta Flack (1937), and Dudley R. Herschbach (1932). After her are Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), Jerome Robbins (1918), David Strathairn (1949), George Gallup (1901), Marc Anthony (1968), and Larry David (1947).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Sojourner Truth ranks 23. Before her are Betty Ford (1918), Edward Snowden (1983), Margaret Sanger (1879), Fred Phelps (1929), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), and Gloria Steinem (1934). After her are David Lane (1938), Billy Milligan (1955), Abbie Hoffman (1936), Coretta Scott King (1927), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), and George Lincoln Rockwell (1918).

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