Hich African American leader supported a gradual approach to racial equality for all. Question 4 options: W. E. B. DuBois Booker T. Washington Alonzo Herndon Jim Crow

The African American leader who supported a gradual approach to racial equality was Booker T. Washington. Living in the south, he believed that a slow approach would reduce the chance of a strong adverse reaction from the whites, improving the opportunity of gaining equality with peace; the black advancements leading to civil rights would be through education. Many people thought his strategy would maintain the Negro community away from its civil rights for a long period, sacrificing even more the blacks in the south.