INSTITUTION
The correct answer is “founding The North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company.”
This best illustrates Booker T. Washington's idea that black people should focus on building up their own institutions rather than directly challenging segregation. Washington believed that African Americans should work to improve their economic status and build up their own businesses and institutions in order to gain the respect and influence they deserved.
He argued that by focusing on economic advancement and self-improvement, African Americans could eventually gain equal rights and social acceptance. By founding The North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, Washington and his colleagues were working to create a successful and influential black-owned business that would provide economic opportunities and improve the standing of the African American community.
