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Learn all about George Washington Carver's incredible life and story.

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George Washington Carver for Kids | Learn all about his incredible life and story

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Carver is born! But his father is shortly shot and killed after.

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George, one of his sisters, and his mother are kidnapped! They are taken to Kentucky, and Carver is just a baby!

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Carver is found and is taken back to the farm with his older brother. They are raised by Moses Carver and Susan Carver. But young Carver didn't work in the farms like kids his age. He learned how to work in the kitchen garden. He learned to make herbal medicines and how to care for plants!

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Carver loves his work in the garden, and he begins to experiment with chemicals such as pesticides and fungicides. He soon makes his own mixtures which grow healthier plants! People called him "The Plant Doctor." Can you believe this? He's only a kid!

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What even are you when you're 11? Pre teen? Kid? Eh, who cares? Learn all about his schools!

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What even are you when you're 11? Pre teen? Kid? Eh, who cares? Learn all about his schools!

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At the age of 11, Carver goes to an all-black school in Neosho, Missouri.

When he is 13, he moves to Kansas for high school.
He graduates at 16 and makes plans to go to college!
Since he is a really good student, he is able to get a full scholarship to Highland Presbyterian College in Kansas. Sadly, he is turned away by his skin color when he arrives at the school. (jerks)

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Don't worry. He is able to get in another college when he is 24 years old.

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Don't worry. He is able to get in another college when he is 24 years old.

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After being turned away by Highland, he is discouraged but doesn't give up! He is able to make it into the Simpson College in Iowa. He was also the first black student there!

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Carver studied piano and art before switching to Botany.
(Botany is the study of plants if you didn't know.)

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He transfers to Iowa State Agricultural College, which is known in the present day as the Iowa State University.
He earned a bachelor's and master's degree!
He decided to stay at Iowa state and teach there!

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While he is teaching in Iowa State, Booker T. Washington a really popular activist in the black community, invites Carver to teach agriculture at Tuskegee Institute.
(The Tuskegee Institute is one of the first Black American colleges.)
He accepts this new role and teaches agriculture for...no, not 10 or 20 years... but for 47 YEARS.

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Carver's main goal while teaching is to teach generations of Black students new farming techniques.

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Farmers every year planted cotton plants, but eventually the soil wasn't allowing the plants to grow right. There were also these bugs called Boll Weevils that would eat the cotton plants.
Carver invents an idea called Crop Rotation. One year, the farmers plant peanuts, making the soil better AND drawing Boll Weevils away since they don't like peanuts. But farmers don't think peanuts will sell well, so Carver makes many, many things with the peanuts he receives.
He is now called the Peanut Man.

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As Carver continues helping farmers, he soon becomes known all around the South as The Farmers Friend. And then, all the work he did makes him known all around the world!

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Sadly, George Washington Carver passes away in 1943. He is buried on Tuskegee grounds next to Booker T. Washington. He uses his life savings of $60,000 to create the George Washington Carver Institute in Tuskegee. This amount would be worth almost a MILLION DOLLARS today.

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January 5th is also known as George Washington Carver Recognition day!

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Thanks for reading this entire thing and shoutout to Ms. Colgan for helping me edit this.