SOCIAL ACTIVIST

W. E. B. Du Bois

1868 - 1963

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( doo-BOYSS; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and Harvard University, where he was its first African American to earn a doctorate, Du Bois rose to national prominence as a leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of black civil rights activists seeking equal rights. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. E. B. Du Bois has received more than 9,872,476 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). W. E. B. Du Bois is the 238th most popular social activist (down from 185th in 2019), the 2,443rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,887th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Social Activist.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, W. E. B. Du Bois ranks 238 out of 840. Before him are C. Rajagopalachari, Kate Sheppard, Jayaprakash Narayan, Viktors Arājs, Simon bar Giora, and Nimr al-Nimr. After him are Marina Ginestà, David Riazanov, David Lane, Maria Altmann, Stjepan Filipović, and Vera Figner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, W. E. B. Du Bois ranks 77. Before him are Lin Sen, Otto von Lossow, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Paul P. Harris, Stanisław Przybyszewski, and George Arliss. After him are Ernst Linder, José Félix Uriburu, Fakhri Pasha, Keisuke Okada, Korbinian Brodmann, and Arturo Alessandri. Among people deceased in 1963, W. E. B. Du Bois ranks 60. Before him are Gustaf Gründgens, Rikidōzan, Dinah Washington, Garrett Morgan, Georg Lindemann, and Clifford Odets. After him are Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Jacobus Oud, Ngô Đình Nhu, Fazlollah Zahedi, Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and Jacob Gade.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, W. E. B. Du Bois ranks 2,443 out of 20,380. Before him are Vera Wang (1949), Ralph Boston (1939), James Bond (1900), Joe Dante (1946), Frances Arnold (1956), and Jaclyn Smith (1945). After him are John Milnor (1931), Henry Winkler (1945), Dan Quayle (1947), Henry George (1839), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), and Robert James Waller (1939).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, W. E. B. Du Bois ranks 26. Before him are Billy Milligan (1955), Emmett Till (1941), Edward Snowden (1983), Fred Phelps (1929), Margaret Sanger (1879), and Gloria Steinem (1934). After him are David Lane (1938), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), Russell Means (1939), Coretta Scott King (1927), Jesse Jackson (1941), and Amelia Bloomer (1818).

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