The correct answer is letter D
Booker Washington was a notable African-American leadership that reached a prominent position in the history of the formation of the black population of the United States. His biography becomes more interesting because he was born a slave and won the admiration of many influential figures of that admittedly racist society. It was a time when southern whites collected the traces of economic destruction left by the American Civil War and debated how to proceed with the economy without the slave labor on which they were so dependent.