George Washington Carver devoted his life to research projects connected primarily with southern agriculture. The products he derived from the peanut and the soybean revolutionized the economy of the South by liberating it from an excessive dependence...

George Washington Carver, born in slavery and orphaned in infancy, rose to national and international fame as an agricultural scientist. Carver grew up and was educated in the northern states and later became a faculty member at the all-black Tuskegee...

George Washington Carver, born in slavery and orphaned in infancy, rose to national and international fame as an agricultural scientist. Carver grew up and was educated in the northern states and later became a faculty member at the all-black Tuskegee...

George Washington Carver (1864-1943) started his life as a slave and ended it as a respected and world-renowned agricultural chemist. Born in Kansas Territory near Diamond Grove, Mo., during the bloody struggle between free-soilers and slaveholders,...

George Washington Carver, an undersized, softspoken genius, achieved fame as an agricultural chemist, botanist, educator, and inventor, though he refused to patent or capitalize on most of his innovations. His study of peanuts and peanut products,...