Answer: So that African Americans could develop in peace.
Explanation:
Booker T. Washington was one of the most famous and powerful African Americans of his time. He founded the Tuskegee Institute which was a higher institution to educate African Americans and tried to educate and sponsor as many black-owned businesses as he could.
In a very iconic speech called the ''Atlanta Compromise'', he told a mainly white audience that African Americans would not oppose segregation or equality if they were given education and due process in legal issues.
It would seem that he believed that so long as Black people advocated for equality and integration, the whites would always be against their development and would treat them unfairly. If they accepted their situation however, he reasoned that the whites may be more inclined to allow black people access to education and fair trials.
