VOED 6513 History and Principles of Vocation

Education

Dr. David AgnewNovember 28, 2005

Roger Koontz

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

Birth: 1864Death: January 1943

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Carver Birthplace

Diamond, Missouri On the farm of:

Moses and Susan Carver

Kidnapped

By Confederate night-raiders Sent away to Arkansas Found and reclaimed

Young George George Nickname

                                                                         

                                                                                                           

Carver’s Education

Home Schooling Elementary Secondary College

Newton County

One-Room School in Southwest Missouri.

Age Twelve: Required young Carver to leave home do to segregation.

Worked as a farm hand and studied.

High School

Minneapolis High School Kansas College was suggested

Carvers Formal Education

Simpson College Iowa Agricultural College

College

Simpson College Indianola Iowa First Black Student

Student at Iowa State College(now Iowa State University)Graduation portrait, 1894

Permission attained from the Iowa State University Library 

Iowa Agricultural College Bachelor of

Science 1894 Masters of

Science 1897

Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanics

First Black Faculty member. Teaching classes in soil

conservation.

Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute Founder: Booker T

Washington Carver: Director

of Agriculture

At Tuskegee Carver Developed

Crop Rotation Method Alternating Soil-depleting crops Soil-enriching crops

George Washington Carver In The Field

                                                                                         

George Washington Carver in the fieldPhotos Courtesy NPS

Carvers Research & Patents

Carver was granted three patents: Cosmetics Paint Stains

                                             

George Washington Carver in his Tuskegee LaboratoryPhoto Courtesy NPS

Carvers Research Foundation

At Tuskegee Was established in 1940 From Carvers life savings

                                             

George Washington CarverPhoto Courtesy NPS

Dr. George Washington Carver

Honorary Doctorate Simpson College in 1928.

Honorary member Royal Society of Arts in London, England 1923.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt honored Carver with National Monument.

George Washington Carver National Monument

                                         

    Carver Museum, 1999

National Park Service

Carver Museum, 1999 National Park Service

Carver Museum, 1999

National Park Service

                

                   

Carver Agricultural Chemist

Discovered 300 uses for peanuts. Hundreds of uses for soybeans,

pecans, and sweet potatoes.

                   

                                                               

                

                                         

George Washington Carver’s Gravesite

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER DIED IN 1943 AND WAS BURIED AT HIS BELOVED TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE IN ALABAMA, WHERE HE HAD REVOLUTIONIZED AMERICAN SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE.

George Washington Carver

Quotes On Life Quotes on Success My favorite quote from Carver