George Washington Carver
By Jasmin Velez
The life of George Washington Carver
Beginning
George Washington Carver was
born in January 1864 in Diamond
Grove, Missouri. He was born into
slavery during the civil war years. A
week after his birth, George, his
sister and his mother were
kidnapped and sold in Kentucky.
Out of the three the only one that
was found and brought back to
Missouri was George Washington
Carver.
The owners of George, were Moses
and Susan Carver, at the time taught
them. Susan Carver would teach the
children how to read and write.
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When George became more
older he decided to leave the
Carvers home to go to a school
that accepted black children.
After he had gone to many
schools he finally graduated in
Minneapolis High School in
Minneapolis. George went to
college at Simpson's College in
Iowa, which helped develop his
art skills in sketching botanical
samples. George enrolled in the
botany program at Iowa State
Agricultural College. He was
the first black student in Iowa End
state. He completed his His research in Tuskegee focused on
bachelors degree in science and plant biology. His early experiments
then he completed his masters. helped out with the products he made
Then he became a teacher and a in the future. Plastics, paints and dyes.
researcher and then he was George was a Botanist, Chemist,
running an agricultural Scientist and Inventor. George Carver
department in the had died on January 5th, 1943 in
African-American Tuskegee Tuskegee, Alabama.
Institute.