
Date: 1864 – January 5, 1943
Who: George Washington Carver
Where: Tuskegee, Alabama
What: George Washington Carver was a scientist and inventor who transformed agriculture in the south. Carver devised over 100 products using the peanut crop, including dyes, plastics and gasoline. In his role as a researcher at the Tuskegee institute he devised new methods of crop rotation and the development of alternative cash crops for farmers in areas heavily planted with cotton.
Learn more: George Washington Carver - Biography, Inventor, Scientist
Kremer, G. R. (Ed.). (2017). George Washington Carver: in his own words. University of Missouri Press.
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