Posted on Oct 1, 2020
George Washington Carver’s Legacy Went Beyond Peanuts
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Today's environmental and sustainable farming movements owe a lot to the innovative Black scientist. Carver was a brilliant scientist, and his alma mater made him a generous offer of employment. But Carver wasn’t in it for the money; he had nobler goals. He wanted, he wrote in a letter to Booker T. Washington, “to be the greatest good to the greatest number of my people.” When Washington offered him a job at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Macon County, Alabama, Carver jumped at the opportunity. At the time, the industrial school was fast becoming a model for preparing Black citizens for jobs in the post-Civil War economy.
Today's environmental and sustainable farming movements owe a lot to the innovative Black scientist. Carver was a brilliant scientist, and his alma mater made him a generous offer of employment. But Carver wasn’t in it for the money; he had nobler goals. He wanted, he wrote in a letter to Booker T. Washington, “to be the greatest good to the greatest number of my people.” When Washington offered him a job at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Macon County, Alabama, Carver jumped at the opportunity. At the time, the industrial school was fast becoming a model for preparing Black citizens for jobs in the post-Civil War economy.
George Washington Carver’s Legacy Went Beyond Peanuts
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An awesome man for all farmers, regardless of color. His work weaned the South out of the clutches of King Cotton and gave all farmers a boost.
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George Washington Carver was great man and was subject to racial bigotry by FDR that set the world back decades agriculturally. Carver should have been the head of the Agriculture Bureau, now known as USDA. But no, the racist in chief that also interred 140,000 Americans because of their racial background, passed over one of the greatest minds in agriculture for some fool that wasn't good enough to to Carver's laundry.
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