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.  

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”

to make world peace not vileonce with fist but words