Complex sentence: Involved in Frederick Douglass' National Council of Colored People, a predecessor to the NAACP, he disagreed with Booker T Washington about the direction of education for freedmen and felt it needed to include opportunities for higher education such as he had.
Split into simpler sentences: Involved in Frederick Douglass' National Council of Colored People, a predecessor to the NAACP, he disagreed with Booker T Washington about the direction of education for freedmen. He felt it needed to include opportunities for higher education such as he had.