The right answer is Booker T. Washington.
By the 1890s Booker T. Washington, born in Virginia of a slave mother and a white father, had become the foremost black educator in the nation. He argued that blacks should not focus on fighting racial segregation. Instead, they should first establish an economic base for their advancement before striving for social equality and political rights. In sum, Washington wanted first to build a prosperous black community; civil rights and social integration could wait. By the turn of the century, Booker T. Washington had become the most influential African American leader in the nation.
