George Washington Carver : A Biography

by Kremer, Gary R.

• ISBN13: 9780313347962
• ISBN10: 0313347964
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-18
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

This insightful work chronicles the life of George Washington Carver, the renowned African American scientist and teacher. George Washington Carver begins with a discussion of the political and social circumstances in Missouri where Carver was born into slavery, circa 1864. Readers will follow Carver through his formal education to his decision to accept Booker T. Washington's offer to teach and do research at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The bulk of the volume focuses on Carver's career at Tuskegee, a career that spanned nearly five decades, from 1896 until Carver's death in January 1943.The book highlights Carver's major achievements, including his championing of crop rotation and the hundreds of products he created from peanuts (inc. cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics¿) sweet potatoes (inc. wood-fillers, candies, starches¿) and other plants native to the South. In addition to Carver the scientist, students will meet Carver the man, who, for example, loved art and painted throughout his life.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Timeline: Events in the Life of George Washington Carver	p. xiii
Early Years	p. 1
Wandering and Wondering	p. 17
The Iowa State Years	p. 31
Trouble at Tuskegee	p. 45
Carver the Teacher	p. 61
The Effort to Transform Southern Agriculture	p. 77
World War I	p. 93
The Peanut Man	p. 107
Carver and His Boys	p. 121
Suffering Humaniry	p. 135
Dealing with the Great Depression	p. 149
The Final Years	p. 163
George Washington Carver in American Memory	p. 177
Selected Bibliography	p. 191
Index	p. 195
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