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Born
G.W Carver was an African american who was born into slavery and named George Washington Craver. He was born in January 1864 in Diamond, Missouri http://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/carver/ -
Early Life
Carver's mother Mary was owned by Moses and Susan Carver, who raised him and his brother Jim after she was kidnapped.George was so frail that he helped Susan with domestic chores such as cooking, mending, gardening and doing laundry. Susan taught him how to read and write when he was about 11 years old. http://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/carver/ -
Education
By the late 1880s, Carver moved to Winterset, Iowa. Carver was befriended by a white couple, John and Helen Milholland, who encouraged Carver to enroll at Simpson College where he studied piano and art. After a year, however, Carver transferred to the State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, to study agriculture, which he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1894 and a graduate degree in 1896. -
Agricultural Chemist
In 1896, George Washington Carver left Iowa to take a job with Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to take research on agriculture.He taught poor farmers(white and black) to improve their diets.Carver found use in many agricultural products which improved farmers lives.Some of theses products are peanuts, sweet potatoes etc. -
Becoming well known
Caver worked excessively in his lab from the 1900's to 1920's and become known for his agricultural experiments but he also became known for his promotion of equal rights. In the 1920's and 30's, he traveled through the South giving his messages of racial thoughts or opinions. -
Help during rough times
In the 1930's Carver grew larger because of two thing, the disease polio and the Great Depression.Polio was a disease in america that man people caught including children which carver made a cure of peanut oil to sooth and take away the pain. During the Great Depression from the economic decline and many people all over the world needed Carver to help them improve the soil at very little cost. -
Death
George Washington Carver died on January 5, 1943 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Carver was not married to a woman but married to his laboratory and was he did. He was buried in Tuskegee next to Booker T. Washington and a national monument was put in the farm he was born in Diamond. He has the first memorial to an African American person ever. -
Carver's Legacy
George Washington Carver changed the economic and agricultural world forever even though hew was offered to work at other laboratories but he wanted to stay at Tuskegee among his own race.He was an inventor, civil rights activist, teacher, a writer, and an over all amazing person. He created so many beneficial products that are still used today.
