0
George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an African-American inventor, writer, educator, and botanist.
- 1864 - He was born on July 12, 1864 or 1865 in Diamond Grove, MO (Slavery was outlawed in Missouri in January 1865).
- 1877- After being kidnapped and orphaned, he traveled to Kansas at age 13.
- (1882?)- He graduated from Minneapolis High School (Minneapolis, Kansas).
- 1886 - In August, 1886, he homesteaded a farm in Beeler, Kansas.
- 1890 - He studied art and piano at Simpson College in Indianola, OH
- 1894- Carver earns his Bachelor's degree in Agriculture at Iowa Agricultural College
- 1896 - Booker T. Washington invited Carver to head the Agriculture department at Tuskegee Institute. Despite administrative disagreements with Washington and the faculty, he remained active at Tuskegee until shortly before his death in 1943.
- 1900's - Carver introduced crops and agricultural techniques to Alabama and other southern states.
- 1916 - Carver was made a fellow in the Royal Society of Arts in England.
- 1920, 1921 - He was invited to speak at the convention for the peanut growers association, and testified before Congress in support of a tariff on peanuts (enacted in 1922)
- 1923 - He received the NAACP Springarn Medal.
- 1928 - He received an honorary doctorate from Simpson College
- 1939 - Carver received the Theodore Roosevelt Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Southern Agriculture
- 1941 - The George Washington Carver Museum was established at Tuskegee.
- 1943 - After six years of declining health, Carver died from anemia following a fall, on January 5, 1943. He is was buried next to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute.
- 1953 - The George Washington Carver National Monument opened, near Diamond, MO, ten years after its founding by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
*Another simplified version can be found at the related link.
*An excellent biography is located at the second link below.
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Who were George Washington Carver's parents?
Carver was a baby when he and his mother Mary were kidnapped by slave raiders. Moses sent a scout to find and bring them back. Only baby George was founds sick with whooping cough that the raiders had left him for dead.
Where did George Washington Carver name came from?
He originally had no middle name. He was originally "George" but the person who owned him was a "carver" so he was "Carver's George". Later, in school, there was another George Carver, so he added Washington as his middle name.
What did George Washington craver look like?
The questioner appears to seek an image of the African American scientist George Washington Carver.One can find an image of Dr. Carver and a description about a biography of him at the School Library Journal web site.http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1790000379/post/1480022948.htmlThere are many other images available through Google Images. Write "George Washington Carver" (be sure to use quotation marks around his name).More information about Dr. Carver's life can be found at the Tuskegee Institutehttp://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=1106545#atThe Tuskegee Institute has source materials (including images of Dr. Carver). Seehttp://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=1106545#at
Where can you find a download of George Washington A Forging of a Nation?
Where can you find a download of George Washington A Forging of a Nation?
Who started the first African American school where they could learn skills such as farming and shoemaking?
Booker T. Washington, the prominent African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States was asked to be the first leader of of the new Tuskegee Institute a normal school (teacher's college). He arrived only to discover no land, buildings, teachers or student and he set to work to remedy all of those issues. Over half of Tuskegee's 5,000 acre campus was a working farm. Students learned agriculture, soil conservation, animal husbandry, dairying, crop management and the like in morning classes, then applied their knowledge in the afternoon to operating the farm. He introduced training in 45 trades, from carpentry and masonry to electrical and mechanical engineering, shoemaking, printing, publishing, nursing and even "domestic skills". He built a 150-teacher faculty, hiring the best he could find: people like George Washington Carver to head the Agricultural Department and Robert Taylor, the first black architect to graduate from MIT. Under his leadership, Tuskegee's enrollment grew to 2,000 plus and its endowment to $45 million (adjusted for inflation).
What did George Washington Carver find?
Peanut Butter
Who was George Washington carver's mom?
George Washington Carver's parents were Mary and Giles Carver, and were slaves owned by Susan and Moses Carver. When George was only one week old, him, a sister, and his mother got kidnapped by night raiders from Arkansas. Moses sent out John Bentley to find them, but only George was found.
When did George Washington Carver Find many different uses for the peanut?
George Washington Carver never invented the peanut. It is a plant that grows naturally. Carver found many innovative uses for the peanut.
Why did George Washington Carver try to develop other uses for peanuts?
So many peanuts were being grown, that George Washington Carver had to find other uses for peanuts.
Why did George Washington Carver add a w n to his name?
George was the son of slaves, his family owned by a man named Carver. When he went to Iowa State Agricultural College, he adopted the middle name Washington, reportedly because there was another George Carver at the school.
Who were George Washington carver's parents what happened to his mother?
George Washington Carver's parents were Mary and Giles Carver, and were slaves owned by Susan and Moses Carver. When George was only one week old, him, a sister, and his mother got kidnapped by night raiders from Arkansas. Moses sent out John Bentley to find them, but only George was found.
Where can you find a book of George Washington Carver?
There's this new thing called the library
Where can you find a time line on the book George Washington's Socks?
There isn't a timeline in the book.
Did George Washington Carver find over 200 uses for peanut cotton and gin?
Yes he did.
Where can you find a tmeline on George Washington Carver?
http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=110654
What uses for the sweet potato did George Washington Carver find?
He found that sweet potatoes are good for dye
Was it a mistake that George Washington Carver created peanut butter?
No it was not. George Washington Carver needed to find more uses for peanuts, because there were way too many peanuts being grown, so he created peanut butter.
