George Washington Carver
This intellectual giant, born into slavery but later courted by presidents, lived by a guiding principle, saying, “No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it”
George Washington Carver
American agricultural chemist
George Washington Carver (born 1861?, near Diamond Grove, Missouri, U.S.—died January 5, 1943, Tuskegee, Alabama) was a revolutionary American agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter who was born into slavery and sought to uplift Black farmers through the development of new products derived from peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans. His work helped transform the stagnant agricultural economy of the South after the American Civil War. In the decades following emancipation, Southern agriculture remained heavily dependent on...
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