Accomplishments

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du Bois

Created the Atlanta Compromise.

Leader of the Niagara Movement.

Helped improve the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

First African-American to earn a doctorate.

Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the NAACP in 1909.

Author of a collection of essays.

First African American to be summoned to the White House by a President.