Person · 1864–1943
George Washington Carver
The agricultural scientist whose work at Tuskegee transformed Southern farming and made him one of the most famous Americans of his era.
A landmark figure of [[black-science]].
Born into slavery, George Washington Carver became a pioneering scientist and educator, developing crop-rotation methods and hundreds of uses for the peanut and sweet potato to help impoverished Black farmers escape the grip of cotton.