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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

W. E. B. Du Bois

1868 - 1963

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( dew-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 9,419,972 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). W. E. B. Du Bois is the 185th most popular social activist (down from 184th in 2019), the 1,888th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,033rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 55

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  • 6.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, W. E. B. Du Bois ranks 185 out of 538. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Otoya Yamaguchi, Guru Ram Das, Salvador Puig Antich, Emily Davison, and Andrés Bonifacio. After him are Yelena Bonner, Chico Mendes, Lepa Radić, Gloria Steinem, Chen Sheng, and Moses Montefiore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, W. E. B. Du Bois ranks 62. Before him are Olga Knipper, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Paul Otlet, Henry Bergman, Ernst Linder, and Alice Keppel. After him are Ahmed Shawqi, Noe Zhordania, S. P. L. Sørensen, Mary Parker Follett, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., and Paul P. Harris. Among people deceased in 1963, W. E. B. Du Bois ranks 43. Before him are Karl Bühler, Piero Manzoni, William Beveridge, Alois Hudal, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, and William Carlos Williams. After him are Sivananda Saraswati, Eduard Spranger, Karl von Terzaghi, Remedios Varo, Sylvanus Olympio, and Adrian Carton de Wiart.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, W. E. B. Du Bois ranks 1,888 out of 18,182. Before him are Jonathan Edwards (1703), Lee Grant (1927), Paul Schrader (1946), John Hancock (1737), Dick York (1928), and John Mauchly (1907). After him are Don Budge (1915), James B. Donovan (1916), Larry Holmes (1949), Ashton Kutcher (1978), Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), and Steven Soderbergh (1963).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, W. E. B. Du Bois ranks 21. Before him are John Brown (1800), Frederick Douglass (1818), Betty Ford (1918), Edward Snowden (1983), Margaret Sanger (1879), and Fred Phelps (1929). After him are Gloria Steinem (1934), Sojourner Truth (1797), David Lane (1938), Billy Milligan (1955), Abbie Hoffman (1936), and Coretta Scott King (1927).

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