George Washington Carver

Introduction

George Washington Carver was born a slave in the spring of 1864 in Diamond Grove, Missouri on the farm of Moses Carver; Carver was a child when he and his mother were removed from the plantation owner by a gang of thieves also slaves. His mother was sold and shipped away, but Carver was ransomed, ransomed by his master in exchange for a racehorse. While working as a farmhand, Carver managed to obtain a high school education. He was admitted as the first black student of Simpson College in Indianola in Iowa. Then he attended the Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) where, while working as a school janitor, he received a degree in agricultural sciences in 1894. Two years later he received a graduate degree from the same school and became the first African American to be a teacher. Before long his fame grew and in 1896, Booker T. Washington persuaded George Washington Carver to head the Department of Agriculture, Tuskegee Institute.

This is where Carver convinced farmers that planting peanuts and sweet potatoes could rejuvenate depleted soils. To make a new profitable crop, Carver revolutionized the agricultural economy of the south by proving that 300 products could be derived from peanuts. Around 1938, the peanut had become an industry of $ 200 million and a staple in Alabama. Carver also demonstrated that 100 products could be derived from the sweet potato. Arriving at Tuskegee he realized he was little done to educate African-American children. He also found that black teachers were often unprepared for lack of didactic knowledge base. These observations undoubtedly reinforced the sense of mission and commitment to the education of African-Americans.

These are students who cleaned up the site and built the first local original Tuskegee, earning the respect of local residents. During his tenure at Tuskegee, Carver had the nickname "Wizard of Tuskegee" for the exceptional quality of its research and teaching. Leveraging its experience in the State of Iowa, Carver developed mobile schools to bring knowledge of agricultural practice directly with farmers. In the early twentieth century Booker T. Washington had established a solid financial foundation for the Tuskegee Institute. Contributions came from generous donors such as the North Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller.

Carver was born under slavery on a farm near Diamond, Missouri. And shortly after his birth, his father was killed in an accident, whiles the Raiders of the night and kidnapped his mother, and then, by Moses and Susan Carver raised him. At a young age, Carver showed great interest in plants and a strong desire to learn. The couple Carver taught him to read and write. When he was eleven years old strain Nesho Carver traveled to Missouri to attend a school devoted to black children. Over the next twenty years, Carver's work in various jobs to support him and pay school expenses, and in 1890, he joined the Simpson College in Indianola Iowa. Carver and showed promising talent as a painter, but decided instead to continue ...