What person was influenced in trying to ease race relations in america during the early part of the 20s

Booker T. Washington.  Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University.

the enslaved people onboard suffered from illness with some frequency

d) post-world war i