Booker t. washington urged african americans to:

a. work hard and achieve economic success.

b. move to the north to avoid lynching.

c. move back to africa to escape american racism.

d. reject segregation and fight for equality with whites.

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A. Work hard and achieve economic success.

Explanation:

Booker T Washington, an educator, believed that learning industrial skills and crafts plus the cultivation of patience, enterprise and thrift could help African-Americans to advance in the post-Reconstruction  era (19th century). He encouraged his fellow black Americans to attain economic security first before pushing for civil rights.

so the story tells of someone named kaushik choudhuri, but he does not narrate the story, a girl named hema does. hema tells the story in a second person point of view because you (the reader) are supposed to be the boy named kaushik.

here's an excerpt i found: "i was ushered into the fitting room, your mother watching approvingly as i took off my coat and sweater and tried on the bra."

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