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Carver Day, which celebrates the life of scientist and humanitarian George Washington Carver and the national monument in his honor, will held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. This year will ...
Curtis came by to talk to Bubba about the Carver Day Celebration happening this Saturday 10am to 3pm in Diamond, MO. It has ...
George Washington Carver was born into slavery at some point just before the end of the Civil War, so he grew up in a South that was deeply dependent on cotton. (The exact date of his birth is ...
NORWALK — As a child, Denise Rawles didn’t know a lot of people who went to ...
Linda McMurry, author of the biography George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol, writes that Carver was ubiquitous in his time, and one of the dozen or so most famous people in America.
As Black History Month comes to a close, the George Washington Carver Museum hosted its last event in February’s lineup, catering specifically to the kids.
Botanist George Washington Carver, seen here in a 1940 photo, donated $33,000 in cash to the Tuskegee Institute to establish a fund to carry on the agricultural and chemical work he began.
DIAMOND, Mo. — George Washington Carver National Monument, in partnership with the teacher education department at Missouri Southern State University, the Spiva Center for the Arts, and the ...
George Washington Carver is slotted in American history lessons as "the peanut guy." But the Missourian led a revolution in biofuels, food trucks, plant-based meats, alternative medicines, and ...
But in 1896 Carver met Booker T. Washington and fell under the hypnotic spell of a man he would come to idolize. He gave up his post in Iowa to go “to his people,” the Negro school Washington ...
NORWALK — Tucked away on Academy St behind a car dealership, The George Washington Carver Community Center is hard to find. ... Peterkin began small, with 50 kids at two middle schools.
There are several biographies of George Washington Carver in print, but this book, although highly specialized and detailed, would also serve for those who haven’t read one.