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16 unusual facts about George Washington Carver


Anne Spencer

Also an activist for equality and educational opportunities for all, she hosted such dignitaries as Langston Hughes, Marian Anderson, George Washington Carver, Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Weldon Johnson, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Bill Landry

In 2003, Landry's production of The George Washington Carver Project was also distributed by the Tennessee Department of Education to schools in Tennessee through the Carver Project website.

Carver Academy

The school was founded in 2001 and is named after George Washington Carver.

Charles Wilbert White

White's best known work is The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy, a mural at Hampton University depicting a number of notable blacks including Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Peter Salem, George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Marian Anderson.

Corner Boys

As the three detectives talk, Crutchfield claims that Omar is no historical figure like George Washington Carver, rather he is just another petty criminal whose name rings up on multiple open cases including two of Bunk's.

Diamond, Missouri

Diamond is primarily renowned as the birthplace of George Washington Carver.

Garland Independent School District

George Washington Carver School - A segregated all African American school named after the African American scientist that was officially closed December 31, 1970, when Garland ISD desegregated.

Hanover, Massachusetts

George Washington Carver lived in a small cabin on the North River in Hanover for several months while he worked on his autobiography.

Jack Whitten

Planning a career as an army doctor, Whitten entered pre-medical studies at Tuskegee Institute where he took some pilot training and became inspired by George Washington Carver's legacy as a scientist, inventor and artist.

L.S. Alexander Gumby

The scrapbooks contain autographed photos, stories and letters from such notable performers as Paul Robeson, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and Ethel Waters, and letters and autographs from Black historical figures such as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Father Divine, W.E.B. Dubois, and Marcus Garvey.

Morris Ketchum Jesup

His contributions to Tuskegee Institute enabled George Washington Carver to develop a mobile educational station that he took to farmers.

Negro Colleges in War Time

A brief overview of the war related work at several different black colleges follows, starting with Tuskegee where the famous George Washington Carver was putting his brain to work for the war effort.

Peanut butter cookie

George Washington Carver (1864-1943), an American agricultural extension educator, from Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, was the most well known promoter of the peanut as a replacement for the cotton crop, which had been heavily damaged by the boll weevil.

Robert Colescott

In his George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page From an American History Textbook, he re-imagined Emanuel Leutze's 1851 painting of the Revolutionary War hero, putting Carver, a pioneering African American agricultural chemist, at the helm of a boat loaded with black cooks, maids, fishermen and minstrels.

Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated

In 1986, the co-op undertook the construction of three new apartment divisions on Phillip Street, next to the existing property, named Carver, Clayfield, and Kershaw.

The dormitory divisions are Phillip North(A1/A2), Phillip South (A3/A4), and Hammar, and the apartment divisions are Carver, Clayfield, Kershaw, and B-Division.


Dunleith, Delaware

The streets were named after prominent African-Americans such as Jackie Robinson, Ralph Bunche and George Washington Carver.