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As agriculture expanded from the Carolinas into Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, early Southern farmers grew peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans. However, finding a profitable market for these ...
The fifth day of the year is known as Carver Day, marking the death and honoring the legacy of George Washington Carver. To some, he’s just the guy who “invented” peanut butter.
In 1943 when Congress okayed the establishment of The George Washington Carver National Monument, it was a powerful tribute to George Washington Carver as a leading agricultural scientist ...
Once one of the most difficult colors to recreate in paint, blue was only available to medieval artists, for example, by grinding up the prized stone known as lapis lazuli. By the 1900s, it was still ...
A 1939 photo of George Washington Carver meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his visit to the Tuskegee Institute. (Getty Images) RECOGNITION. Carver died on Jan. 5, 1943.