Booker T. Washington believed African Americans should focus on vocational skills.
Explanation:
He was president of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881, born in poverty, who claimed that discrimination would disappear when blacks learned valuable work skills and demonstrated their economic value to the economy. His novel "Up from Slavery." A liberal African American who opposed segregation and advocated on African Americans to be more able to achieve justice on their own.
Vocational education in the U.s is the result of a comprehensive process of evolution. Political, academic and social factors have consistently had an effect on concept of vocational training as well as on whether, where, where and to whom it will be given.