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 argued that African Americans should pursue vocational training, build economic independence, and temporarily tolerate segregation and inequality while gaining influence through work and success. W. E. B. Du Bois instead called for immediate civil rights and higher education, so the leader described is Booker T. Washington.

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