George Washington Carver
eBook - PDF

George Washington Carver

A Biography

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

George Washington Carver

A Biography

About this book

This book strips away the myths surrounding the famed scientist George Washington Carver and portrays him as a brilliant, creative man who nonetheless possessed very human peculiarities and frailties. This insightful work chronicles the life of George Washington Carver, the renowned African American scientist and teacher. George Washington Carver: A Biography 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, sweet potatoes, 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.

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Information

Publisher
Greenwood
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780313347962
eBook ISBN
9780313347979
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Series Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Timeline: Events in the Life of George Washington Carver
  8. Chapter 1 Early Years
  9. Chapter 2 Wandering and Wondering
  10. Chapter 3 The Iowa State Years
  11. Chapter 4 Trouble at Tuskegee
  12. Chapter 5 Carver the Teacher
  13. Chapter 6 The Effort to Transform Southern Agriculture
  14. Chapter 7 World War I
  15. Chapter 8 The Peanut Man
  16. Chapter 9 Carver and His Boys
  17. Chapter 10 Suffering Humanity
  18. Chapter 11 Dealing with the Great Depression
  19. Chapter 12 The Final Years
  20. Chapter 13 George Washington Carver in American Memory
  21. Selected Bibliography
  22. Index