Which leader in the early 1900s supported the idea that African Americans should temporarily accept inequality while working to gain job skills and obtain economic independence?

Booker T. Washington urged African Americans to focus on vocational education, job skills, and economic self-reliance, while temporarily accepting segregation and inequality. This approach is associated with his Atlanta Compromise speech. W. E. B. Du Bois instead called for immediate civil rights and higher education.

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