Essay, Research Paper: George Washington Carver

This report is about George Washington Carver a man who invented many things. He was born in 1864, near Diamond Grove, Missouri on the farm of Moses Carver. Carver was born into difficult and changing times, near the end of the Civil War. George and his mother were kidnapped by Confederate night-raiders and they were sent to Arkansas. Moses Carver found and reclaimed George after the war but his mother had disappeared forever. George had never met his father he believed that he was still a slave from a neighboring farm.
When he was twelve he began his education, it required him to leave the home of his adopted parents. George Washington Carver went to a segregated school for only African Americans he had to go really far because there were no schools near his home. He moved to Newton County in southwest Missouri, where he worked as a farm hand and studied in a one-room schoolhouse. He went on to attend Minneapolis High School in Kansas. It was hard for him to go to college because of the racial barriers. At the age of thirty, Carver gained acceptance to in Indianola, Iowa, where he was the first black student. Carver had to study piano and art, the college did not offer science classes. He really liked science and wanted a science career he later transferred to Iowa Agricultural College which is now called Iowa State University in 1891. He gained his Bachelor of Science degree in 1894 and a Masters of Science degree in bacterial botany and agriculture in 1897. Carver became a member of the faculty of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanics he was also the first black faculty member for Iowa State College he was teaching classes soil conservation and chemurgy.
Carver invented many things like peanut butter along with over three hundred uses with peanuts and hundreds more uses with soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes. He made countless products that we use today were made by Carver. in 1891, where he gained a


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