Who is most likely to have said the following:

" blacks must learn job-specific skills that will them escape the plight of the sharecropper."

The sentence "Blacks must learn job-specific skills that will help them escape the plight of the sharecropper."  was said by Booker T. Washington.

Explanation:

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856 - 1915) was born in Virginia, United States. He was a writer and educator, and was a remarkable African-American leadership who achieved a prominent position in the history of the formation of black population thinking in the US. Washington acted in an atmosphere of uncertainty, after the American Civil War, defending the technical education of the black population. His thoughts are clear in the quoted sentence. He had an enviable oratory and his public pronouncements were well received by the conciliatory and pleasant words addressed to the public. In all, Washington contributed a lot to African Americans’ life, mainly by forming a hand that specializes in technical works and raising their self-esteem.

formulating the initial idea for the policy

answer is c.