Authors, activists and historians attended the event on Saturday at the George Washington Carver Library and Museum.

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.

George Washington Carver was a prominent American scientist and inventor in the early 1900s. Carver developed hundreds of products using the peanut, sweet potatoes and soybeans.

George Washington Carver, born a slave in Missouri and who became an eccentric agricultural scientist, was the most prominent African-American in the United States following a speech he gave to a ...

George Washington Carver was born into slavery at some point just before the end of the Civil War, so he grew up in a South that was deeply dependent on cotton. (The exact date of his birth is ...

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 ...

Botanist and inventor George Washington Carver was born into slavery and died as a scientific advisor to presidents and titans of industry. What happened in between was no less extraordinary. 1.

George Washington Carver's story has a special place in Iowa history, but it also has a unique international aspect. In 1929, Mahatma Gandhi turned to Carver for advice just as he was beginning ...

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.