George Washington Carver

Hi, I’m George Washington Carver and I was born July 12, 1864 was an American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor. My family pioneered with agriculture research that launched a new era for farmers across the South part of American. I wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops like Peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes as a source for food and other products to help them survive, so I showed them the value of crop rotations, that introduced hundreds of possible ways for the peanut, soybean, and sweet potatoes, like medicine and oils, and produced hardier hybrids of a number of other plants, mostly with cotton. George Washington Carver was an African Methodist Episcopal. George Washington Carver was not married, but he had a partner named Austin W. Curtis Jr. also a scientist. In the year 1916, I was named London’s Royal Society for the encouragement of the fine arts. I was now a recipient of the Spingarn Medal for Distinguished Service from the NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), in 1923. In 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt gave me a medal for the outstanding contribution to the southern Agriculture research. In 1941 George Washington Carver was given a museum at the Tuskegee Institute (George Washington Carver’s college where he studied and practiced science). George Washington Carver died in Tuskegee, Alabama on January 5, 1943. After George Washington Carver died Austin w. Curtis Jr. went to Detroit and took the knowledge of peanuts and manufactured them and made products out peanuts.