Which African American leader founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute to teach skilled labor to African Americans and also wrote the autobiography Up from Slavery? W. E.B. Du Bois

Mary McLeod Bethune

Booker T. Washington

Ida B. Wells

Booker T. Washington is the correct answer.

Booker T. Washington

Explanation:

His base was the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college he founded in Tuskegee, Alabama. As lynchings in the South reached a peak in 1895, Washington gave a speech, known as the "Atlanta compromise", which brought him national fame.