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George Washington Carver

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• People often think of Carver as the man who invented peanut butter. And that's true! He did!
• He was an agricultural chemist who developed crop-rotation methods for conserving nutrients in soil.
• He discovered hundreds of new uses for crops such as the peanut, which created new markets for farmers, especially in the South.
• He struggled to be educated in the agricultural sciences at a time when education for black men was rare.
• When the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for Negroes was founded, Carver was the school's first Director of Agriculture.
• He held three patents in his lifetime and never profited from any of them.
• "He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world." - Epitaph on the grave of George Washington Carver.
• Learn more about George Washington Carver.