SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Wendell Phillips

1811 - 1884

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Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney. According to George Lewis Ruffin, a Black attorney, Phillips was seen by many Blacks as "the one white American wholly color-blind and free from race prejudice". According to another Black attorney, Archibald Grimké, as an abolitionist leader he is ahead of William Lloyd Garrison and Charles Sumner. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wendell Phillips has received more than 404,831 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Wendell Phillips is the 692nd most popular social activist, the 13,897th most popular biography from United States and the 115th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 46.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Wendell Phillips ranks 692 out of 840. Before him are Sumaira Abdulali, Aruna Shanbaug case, Karina Pankievich, Yoani Sánchez, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, and Faiza Jama Mohamed. After him are Walter Reuther, Anna Sharyhina, Pauli Murray, Vida Goldstein, Stan Swamy, and Edith Windsor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Wendell Phillips ranks 82. Before him are Thomas C. Jerdon, George Gilbert Scott, Alfred Domett, John Kilian, John Bright, and Edward Dickinson Baker.  Among people deceased in 1884, Wendell Phillips ranks 74. Before him are Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, John Hutton Balfour, LeRoy Pope Walker, José Eusebio Otalora, Charles J. Folger, and John Kilian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wendell Phillips ranks 13,897 out of 20,380. Before him are Potter Stewart (1915), Teyonah Parris (1987), Duffer brothers (1984), Samuel D. Ingham (1779), Jack Antonoff (1984), and Monica Raymund (1986). After him are Ashley Jones (1976), Felix Grundy (1777), Jim Justice (1951), Sam Ruben (1913), Omari Hardwick (1974), and Kenny Rollins (1923).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Wendell Phillips ranks 115. Before him are Fannie Lou Hamer (1917), Frank Kameny (1925), Tarana Burke (1973), Gloria Allred (1941), Ruthie Tompson (1910), and Juliette Gordon Low (1860). After him are Walter Reuther (1907), Pauli Murray (1910), Edith Windsor (1929), Dick Gregory (1932), Grace Abbott (1878), and Dorothy Height (1912).

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