He was first African-American admitted to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
- Booker T. Washington
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Ralph Waldo Ellison
- W.E.B. Dubois
W.E.B. Dubois. The institute was founded to honor “notable achievement in art, music or literature.” In 1943 Dubois was elected for lifetime achievement including writing books like “Black Reconstruction” and “Dusk of the Dawn.”
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