who is George Washington Carver?

Answer 1

George Washington Carver (c. 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an African American botanical researcher and agronomy educator who worked in agricultural extension at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, teaching former slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency.

To bring education to farmers, Carver designed a mobile school. It was called a Jesup Wagon after the New York financier, Morris Ketchum Jesup, who provided funding. [1] In 1921, Carver spoke in favor of a peanut tariff before the House Ways and Means Committee. Given racial segregation and racial discrimination of the time, it was unusual for an African-American to be called as an expert. Carver's well-received testimony earned him national attention, and he became an unofficial spokesman for the peanut industry. Carver wrote 44 practical agricultural bulletins for farmers.

In the post-Civil-War South, an agricultural monoculture of cotton had depleted the soil, and in the early 1900s, the boll weevil destroyed much of the cotton crop. Much of Carver's fame was based on his research and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops as both a source of their own food and a cash crop. His most popular bulletin contained 105 existing food recipes that used peanuts. His most famous method of promoting the peanut involved his creation of about 100 existing industrial products from peanuts, including cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics, gasoline and nitroglycerin. His industrial products from peanuts excited the public imagination but none was a successful commercial product. There are many myths about Carver, especially the myth that his industrial products from peanuts played a major role in revolutionizing Southern agriculture. [2], [3] (See Reputed inventions below.)

Carver's most important accomplishments were in areas other than industrial products from peanuts, including agricultural extension education, improvement of racial relations, mentoring children, poetry, painting, religion, advocacy of sustainable agriculture and appreciation of plants and nature. He served as a valuable role model for African-Americans and an example of the importance of hard work, a positive attitude and a good education. His humility, humanitarianism, good nature, frugality and lack of economic materialism have also been widely admired.

One of his most important roles was that the fame of his achievements and many talents undermined the widespread stereotype of the time that the black race was intellectually inferior to the white race. In 1941, "Time" magazine dubbed him a "Black Leonardo," a reference to the white polymath Leonardo da Vinci [4]

Answer 2

George Washington Carver was a remarkable man -- an inventor and all-around Renaissance man. His memorial (and where he did most of his work) is in Diamond, Missouri. He invented peanut butter (we can all thank him for pb&j sandwiches)! His work with peanuts came about because the soil was so nutrient-deprived from years of growing cotton, and he figured out that planting peanuts (which grow underground) gave nutrients back to the soil and made it better from growing cotton later. He was also black, and during the time he lived was a prominent inventor.

Answer 3

George Washington Carver was a colored botanist/scientist (one of the first). He helped revitalize the post-war South by advocating the planting of peanuts, among other things, and was invited to dine with President Theodore Roosevelt, an action which aroused a storm of controversy

Answer 4

He was an African American peanut farmer and scientist/inventor who created several uses for the peanut.

Answer 5

he was a african american who helped the south and who made over 300 inventions out of the peanut and its shell ; )

Answer 6

gwc is the greatest black scientist that made over 250 peanut products he has inspired many black scientist

Answer 7

invented peanut butter

Answer 8

He was the doctor who did the autopsy on our first President.
.....think about it.........wait for it.......:)

Answer 9

a black man..thats all i remember from elm school about him!

Answer 10

some black dude