What region is in major for a major landform

Who is the speaker in this excerpt from book 13 of homer’s odyssey, and what inference can you make from the tone?

Awaiver of the requirement for documentation of informed consent may be granted when: the investigator has no convenient place to store signed consent forms separate from the research datathe only record linking the subject and the research is the consent document and the principal risk is a breach of confidentiality.potential subjects might find some of the research questions embarrassing, personal, or intrusivethe subjects are literate in their own language; however, they do not read, write, or speak english

What important race leader of the early twentieth century is being described?