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Birth
George Washington Carver is born in Tuskegee, Alabama. -
Adolescence
At age 13 George moved in with a foster family to attend an academy in Fort Scott, Kansas. He would then move around after seeing a black man being killed by a group of white men until he'd settle in Minneapolis, Kansas and attended Minneapolis High School. -
College
Studied art and piano at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. His art teacher encouraged him to study botany at the Iowa State Agricultural College -
Tuskegee Instittute
In 1986 Carver was asked by Booker T Washington to work in the agricultural department of the Tuskegee Institute. He would teach for 47 years developing the program. -
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Food Research
From 1915 to 1923 Carver would look for new uses in foods, such as peanuts. He also would have his assistants work on current existing problems -
Royal Society of the Arts
Carver would be made a member of the Royal Society of the Arts in England. This was very rare for Americans to be in. -
Peanut Production
James Saxon Childers would write that Carver's peanut discoveries were solely responsible for a rise in US peanut production. -
Death
Carver would die January 5, 1943 from complications from falling down a flight of stairs.