Which early civil rights leader believed African Americans could earn equality by learning vocational skills?

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Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans could earn equality by learning vocational skills and becoming economically self-sufficient. He was a prominent leader in the African American community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and advocated for practical education and economic self-improvement as a means of achieving equality and integration in American society.