When Booker T. Washington stated in his 1895 Atlanta Exposition Address that the opportunity for ...

When Booker T. Washington stated in his 1895 Atlanta Exposition Address that the opportunity for blacks to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house, he
 
  believed that race relations would improve if __________. A) African Americans focused on economic advancement and remained patient
  B) African Americans defended themselves with rifles
  C) African Americans left the United States
  D) white Americans understood the poverty in which many African Americans lived