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George Washington Carver enrolls in Simpson College in Iowa as the first black student even though he does not have a high school diploma. He studies piano and art until his professor encourages him to transfer to Iowa State College of Agriculture in Ames, Iowa to study Botany.
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He becomes the first African American student to attend Iowa State College of Agriculture study plants (Botany).
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He graduates from Iowa State College of Agriculture and becomes a faculty member.
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He earns his Master of Agriculture Degree at Iowa State College of Agriculture.
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He is then named the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Tuskegee Institute in hopes to help poor African American farmers learn to grow more soil – enriching crops.
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He creates a horse drawn educational buggy called the Jesup Agricultural Wagon. He travels and demonstrates his experiments for famers.
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Carver gets his Doctorate of Science from Simpson College. And in 2005 as a part of the school’s 150th anniversary, the school adds a scholarship and fellowship in his name.
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Carver starts working with the USDA on the study of Plant Diseases. He then later gets inducted into the USDA Hall of Fame in 2000.
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He donates his life savings of $60,000 to the George Washington Carver Research Foundation at the Tuskegee Institute. Which provides opportunities for African Americans to study botany, chemistry, and agronomy.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates $30,000 for the George Washington Carver National Monument. It includes a statue of Carver where he lived as a child, a museum, nature trail, and cemetery. This is the first monument dedicated to an African – American.
