Booker T Washington was a true world representation of Self-Determinism.
He didn't expect anything to be handed to him, instead he worked, demonstrated his value and was ultimately rewarded for it with major success and often a meeting with the white house on white-negro relations spanning two administrations --More than any black 'protester' has accomplished ever since.
Booker T was what people should strive to be, but what the people often refuse to be, and what the democrats never want people to be.
One of my personal heroes, despite not being black or American myself.