George Washington Carver - By: Anna Petrescu

George Washington Carver, an American scientist, educator, inventor and botanist- January 1864-january 5, 1943. Black Americans are highly endowed with rich cultural backgrounds that touch all spheres of modern America today, ranging from politics to agriculture; hence due to this diversity I opted to explore the black legacy and achievements from the very onset of slavery to the present time. More so, the black communities in America have produced some of greatest men and women who have ever graced the universe.
According to the various literary works I have ever read and the several movies I have watched on black Americans, am thoroughly acquitted with exceptional achievements of black Americans which I have narrowed down to deal with the George Washington Carver. As a scientist he is attributed to the research and promotion of alternative crops to cotton such as sweet potatoes and peanuts, this it is established was aimed to help poor farmers to have a stable and guaranteed source of income. On his credit also are more than one hundred products he created using peanuts and this included such products as paints, dye, cosmetics, plastics and gasoline among many others.
Likewise, in the agricultural arena he advocated for the agricultural extension education with the aim of implementing sustainable agriculture while protecting environment. George’s significant actions also included enhancement of racial relations, mentoring children, painting, poetry and religion. He lived as a model of the importance of hard work, a positive stance, and a good education. His humility, superior nature, and dismissal of economic materialism also have been accepted extensively. In 1939; Carver received the Roosevelt Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Southern Agriculture emblazoned "to a scientist humbly seeking the guidance of God and a liberator to men of the white race as well as the black." In 1940, Carver established the George Washington Carver Foundation at the Tuskegee Institute. In 1941, The George Washington Carver Museum was dedicated at the Tuskegee Institute (Reuben, 1976). As an established scientist he worked on making soils better, growing crops with short inputs, and via genus that fixed nitrogen hence, the toil on the cowpea and the peanut. Carver wrote in The Need of Scientific Agriculture in the South: The virgin lushness of our soils and the enormous sum of inexperienced labor has been more of a nuisance than a blessing to farming.
This comprehensive system for gardening, the obliteration of forest, the speedy and almost invariable putrefaction of organic matter, have made our farming crisis one requiring more brains than of the North, East or West(David,1989).in addition, his religion played a central part in his works, this associated to the fact that, he viewed Jesus as a one way of annihilating both barriers of racial disharmony and social setup, hence he taught his students the virtue of being responsible and he was concerned on their character and intellectual development.

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