Answer:
African American intellectual of the 19 century
Step-by-step explanation:
Booker T. Washington was an African American intellectual that was born into slavery. He founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881 and the National Negro Business League. He also advised President Roosevelt and Taft. His opinions were polemic, he defended that African Americans should seek improvement through common labor and defended the motto “ separated but equal” to defend that it was better to remain separate from whites.