When Booker T. Washington stated in his 1895 "Atlanta Exposition Address" that "the opportunity [for blacks] to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house," he believed that race relations would improve if
A) African Americans focused on economic advancement and remained patient
B) African Americans defended themselves with rifles
C) African Americans left the United States
D) white Americans understood the poverty in which many African Americans lived

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Booker T. Washington's statement emphasizes the importance of economic self-reliance and progress for African Americans as a means to improve race relations, suggesting that patience and focus on economic advancement were key to their progress.