George Washington Carver (person)

CTL-E-1528 · Person · other · 1890s-1940s

VERIFIED evidence grade of this record

Agricultural scientist at Tuskegee Institute; developed hundreds of uses for the peanut and sweet potato; testified before Congress for the peanut tariff (1921).

The record

Also known as: George Washington Carver

Notes

Parenthetical disambiguation: the bare name collides with CTL-E-1048 (graph institution record bearing his name). Distinct from CTL-E-1048; see identity-resolution/aliases.json.

Relationships

Booker T. Washington — related to
Booker T. Washington recruited Carver to Tuskegee Institute in 1896.
George Washington Carver receives the Spingarn Medal (1923) — related to
Carver received the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1923.
George Washington Carver testifies before Congress (1921) — related to
Carver testified before the House Ways and Means Committee in 1921 in support of a tariff on imported peanuts.
Tuskegee University — affiliated with
Carver joined Tuskegee Institute in 1896 to head its agriculture department and taught there for 47 years.

Referenced by

How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption — authored by → this record

Sources

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