EDITOR & CHIEF

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George Washington Carver was an African-American whose research as an agricultural chemist won
him international fame. He worked to revolutionize the agriculture of the South. He convinced the
farmers of Alabama that they could grow such crops as peanuts, pecans, and sweet potatoes in place of
cotton. Since then, the peanut crop alone has brought the South an income of $60,000,000 in a single
year. In his laboratory, Carver made some 300 products from the peanut ranging from instant “coffee” to
soap and ink. From the sweet potato, he made such products as flour, shoe polish, and candy. He made
synthetic marble from wood shavings, dyes from clay, and starch and gum from cotton stalks.

Carver was born of slave parents on a farm near Diamond Grove, Missouri. When he was a baby, he
and his mother were stolen by a band of night raiders. It is said that he was bought back by his master in
exchange for a racehorse. Earning his way through school, Carver graduated from Iowa State College of
Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. He was a member of the faculty there until 1896. Later, he joined the
staff of the Tuskegee Industrial Institute at the request of Booker T. Washington. His entire life savings
went to that Institute when he died in 1943. The Institute house is a museum of Carver’s discoveries.

Among the many honors he received were the Spingarn Medal in 1923 and The Roosevelt Medal in
1939. He also won International fame as a painter. In 1916 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts in London, an honor given to few Americans. In 1951, the George Washington Carver National
Monument was established in Missouri on 210 acres of the farm where he was born.