Booker T. Washington encouraged Southern African Americans to achieve social equality by O pursuing a practical education and working toward economic success.
O engaging in activism and peacefully protesting white oppression.
O leaving the South to begin new lives in the more progressive North.
O leaving the United States and establishing free colonies in Africa.

O engaging in activism and peacefully protesting white oppression.

Explanation:

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a) pursuing a practical education and working toward economic success.

Explanation:

I read the speech and it says nothing about protesting so its not b. It does talk about educating and growing the economy.  

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

according to worldatlas.com, the u.s. has an 86% literacy rate.