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who was George Washington carver
George was born into slavery in 1864 his father passed away on a farm due to an accident. then one day when George was still an infant the (bushwhackers) were men who came and took children men and women and would bring them back to Georgia to sell them -
chapter 2 childhood
George's parents had a very big farm (it was about the size of 180 football fields) but George was always sick so he never went to school but he helped with the chores around the house like sewing, cooking, and cleaning. when George was eight years old he was baptized and he would go to church regularly on Sunday when George was not working he was always in the fields and he was looking at the flowers and caring for them. f -
chapter 3 school days
a kind lady named miss Watkins took him in and took care of him he went to the town to see how people were really treated Jim's brother died from small pox -
chapter 4
George got except to college but when he got there he was told that he could not come because he was black George worked at a farm near Kansas city but a great big drought happened then so he moved to Iowa and he got a job at a hotel George made weekly visits to the Mulholland and they told him to go to college and study art -
chapter 5
in 1894 George was the first black man to graduate from Iowa College. in 1895 he gave a speech at the cotton states and international exposition in Atlanta Georgia many black peoples parents were slaves so they could not pay for there kids to go to school -
chapter 6
George moved to the city of Tuskegee to study flowers and plants he set up his own classroom for young kids to study with him. he also did a bible study class once a week. in 1910 he lost his foster father and in 1915 he lost his best friend named Booker T Washington -
chapter 7
in 1916 George wrote a famous book called how to grow peanut -
chapter 8
george made lots of magazine and he was the first black man to have a museum named after him. he passed away in jan in 1943