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George Washington Carver The Peanut Man A Tribute

George Washington Carver
Born 5 January 1864[1]
Diamond, Missouri, U.S.
Died January 5, 1943 (aged 79)
Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.
Religion Christianity[2]
George Washington Carver (5 January 1864[1][3] January 5, 1943), was an American
scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor. The exact day and year of his birth are
unknown; he was born into slavery in Missouri, either in 1861, or January 1864.[1]
Carver's reputation is based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops to
cotton, such as peanuts,soybeans, and sweet potatoes, which also aided nutrition for
farm families. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops both as a source of
their own food and as a source of other products to improve their quality of life. The
most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using
peanuts.[4] He also developed and promoted about 100 products made from peanuts
that were useful for the house and farm, including cosmetics, dyes,paints, plastics,
gasoline, and nitroglycerin. He received numerous honors for his work, including the
Spingarn Medal of the NAACP.
During the Reconstruction-era South, monoculture of cotton depleted the soil in many
areas. In the early 20th century, the boll weevil destroyed much of the cotton crop, and
planters and farm workers suffered. Carver's work on peanuts was intended to provide
an alternative crop.
He was recognized for his many achievements and talents. In 1941, Time magazine
dubbed Carver a "BlackLeonardo".[5]
Early years
Carver was born into slavery in Diamond Grove, Newton County, near Crystal Place,
now known as Diamond, Missouri, possibly in 1864 or 1865, though the exact date is
not known.[6][7] His master, Moses Carver, was a German American immigrant who
had purchased George's parents, Mary and Giles, from William P. McGinnis on October
9, 1855, for $700. Carver had 10 sisters and a brother, all of whom died
prematurely.[citation needed]
When George was only a week old, he, a sister, and his mother were kidnapped by
night raiders from Arkansas.[8] George's brother, James, was rushed to safety from the
kidnappers.[8] The kidnappers sold the slaves in Kentucky. Moses Carver hired John
Bentley to find them, but he located only the infant George. Moses negotiated with the
raiders to gain the boy's return,[8] and rewarded Bentley.
After slavery was abolished, Moses Carver and his wife Susan raised George and his
older brother James as their own children.[8] They encouraged George to continue his
intellectual pursuits, and "Aunt Susan" taught him the basics of reading and writing.
Black people were not allowed at the public school in Diamond Grove. Learning there

was a school for black children 10 miles (16 km) south in Neosho, George decided to go
there. When he reached the town, he found the school closed for the night. He slept in a
nearby barn. By his own account, the next morning he met a kind woman, Mariah
Watkins, from whom he wished to rent a room. When he identified himself as "Carver's
George," as he had done his whole life, she replied that from now on his name was
"George Carver". George liked Mariah Watkins, and her words, "You must learn all you
can, then go back out into the world and give your learning back to the people", made a
great impression on him.[citation needed]
At the age of thirteen, due to his desire to attend the academy there, he relocated to the
home of another foster family in Fort Scott, Kansas. After witnessing a black man killed
by a group of whites, Carver left the city. He attended a series of schools before earning
his diploma at Minneapolis High School in Minneapolis, Kansas.
College
Carver applied to several colleges before being accepted at Highland College in
Highland, Kansas. When he arrived, however, they rejected him because of his race. In
August 1886, Carver traveled by wagon with J. F. Beeler from Highland to Eden
Township in Ness County, Kansas.[9] He homesteaded a claim[10] near Beeler, where
he maintained a small conservatory of plants and flowers and a geological collection.
He manually plowed 17 acres (69,000 m2) of the claim, planting rice, corn, Indian corn
and garden produce, as well as various fruit trees, forest trees, and shrubbery. He also
earned money by odd jobs in town and worked as a ranch hand.[9]
In early 1888, Carver obtained a $300 loan at the Bank of Ness City for education. By
June he left the area.[9] In 1890, Carver started studying art and piano at Simpson
College in Indianola, Iowa.[11] His art teacher, Etta Budd, recognized Carver's talent for
painting flowers and plants; she encouraged him to study botany at Iowa State
Agricultural College in Ames.[11] When he began in 1891, he was the first black
student, and later taught as the first black faculty member.
When he completed his B.S., professors Joseph Budd and Louis Pammel convinced
Carver to continue at Iowa State for hismaster's degree. Carver did research at the Iowa
Experiment Station under Pammel during the next two years. His work at the
experiment station in plant pathology and mycology first gained him national recognition
and respect as a botanist.
At Tuskegee
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In 1896, Booker T. Washington, the first principal and president of the Tuskegee
Institute, invited Carver to head its Agriculture Department. Carver taught there for 47
years, developing the department into a strong research center and working with two
additional college presidents during his tenure. He taught methods of crop rotation,
introduced several alternative cash crops for farmers that would also improve the soil of
areas heavily cultivated in cotton, initiated research into crop products (chemurgy), and
taught generations of black students farming techniques for self-sufficiency.
Carver designed a mobile classroom to take education out to farmers. He called it a
"Jesup wagon" after the New York financier and philanthropist Morris Ketchum Jesup,
who provided funding to support the program.[12]
To recruit Carver to Tuskegee, Washington gave him an above average salary and two
rooms for his personal use, both of which concessions were resented by some other

faculty. Because he had earned a master's in a scientific field from a "white" institution,
some faculty perceived him as arrogant when a young man.[13] Unmarried faculty
members normally had to share rooms, with two to a room, in the spartan early days of
the institute.
One of Carver's duties was to administer the Agricultural Experiment Station farms. He
had to manage the production and sale of farm products to generate revenue for the
Institute. He soon proved to be a poor administrator. In 1900, Carver complained that
the physical work and the letter-writing required were too much.[14] In 1904, an Institute
committee reported that Carver's reports on yields from the poultry yard were
exaggerated, and Washington confronted Carver about the issue. Carver replied in
writing, "Now to be branded as a liar and party to such hellish deception it is more than I
can bear, and if your committee feel that I have willfully lied or [was] party to such lies
as were told my resignation is at your disposal."[15] During Washington's last five years
at Tuskegee, Carver submitted or threatened his resignation several times: when the
administration reorganized the agriculture programs,[16] when he disliked a teaching
assignment,[17] to manage an experiment station elsewhere,[18] and when he did not
get summer teaching assignments in 1913-1914.[19][20] In each case, Washington
smoothed things over.
Carver started his academic career as a researcher and teacher. In 1911, Washington
wrote a letter to him complaining that Carver had not followed orders to plant particular
crops at the experiment station. This revealed Washington's micro-management of
Carver's department, which he had headed for more than 10 years by then. Washington
at the same time refused Carver's requests for a new laboratory, research supplies for
his exclusive use, and respite from teaching classes. Washington praised Carver's
abilities in teaching and original research but said about his administrative skills:
"When it comes to the organization of classes, the ability required to secure a properly
organized and large school or section of a school, you are wanting in ability. When it
comes to the matter of practical farm managing which will secure definite, practical,
financial results, you are wanting again in ability."
In 1911, Carver complained that his laboratory had not received the equipment which
Washington had promised 11 months before. He also complained about Institute
committee meetings.[21] Washington praised Carver in his 1911 memoir, My Larger
Education: Being Chapters from My Experience.[22] Washington called Carver "one of
the most thoroughly scientific men of the Negro race with whom I am acquainted." [23]
After Washington died in 1915, his successor made fewer demands on Carver for
administrative tasks.
While a professor at Tuskegee, Carver joined the Gamma Sigma chapter of Phi Beta
Sigma fraternity. He spoke at the 1930 Conclave that was held at Tuskegee, Alabama,
in which he delivered a powerful and emotional speech to the men in attendance.[24]
From 1915 to 1923, Carver concentrated on researching and experimenting with new
uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans, pecans, and other crops, as well as having
his assistants research and compile existing uses.[25] This work, and especially his
speaking to a national conference of the Peanut Growers Association in 1920 and in
testimony before Congress in 1921 to support passage of a tariff on imported peanuts,
brought him wide publicity and increasing renown. In these years, he became one of the
most well-known African Americans of his time.

Rise to fame
Carver developed techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton.
Together with other agricultural experts, he urged farmers to restore nitrogen to their
soils by practicing systematic crop rotation: alternating cotton crops with plantings of
sweet potatoes or legumes (such as peanuts, soybeans and cowpeas). These both
restored nitrogen to the soil and the crops were good for human consumption. Following
the crop rotation practice resulted in improved cotton yields and gave farmers
alternative cash crops. To train farmers to successfully rotate and cultivate the new
crops, Carver developed an agricultural extension program for Alabama that was similar
to the one at Iowa State. To encourage better nutrition in the South, he widely
distributed recipes using the alternative crops.
In addition, he founded an industrial research laboratory, where he and assistants
worked to popularize the new crops by developing hundreds of applications for them.
They did original research as well as promoting applications and recipes which they
collected from others. Carver distributed his information as agricultural bulletins. (See
Carver bulletins below.)
Carver's work was known by officials in the national capital before he became a public
figure. President Theodore Roosevelt publicly admired his work. Former professors of
Carver's from Iowa State University were appointed to positions as Secretary of
Agriculture: James Wilson, a former dean and professor of Carver's, served from 1897
to 1913. Henry Cantwell Wallace served from 1921 to 1924. He knew Carver personally
as his son Henry A. Wallace and the researcher were friends.[26] The younger Wallace
served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1933 to 1940, and as Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's vice president from 1941 to 1945.
The American industrialist, farmer, and inventor William Edenborn of Winn Parish,
Louisiana, grew peanuts on his demonstration farm. He consulted with Carver[27]
In 1916 Carver was made a member of the Royal Society of Arts in England, one of
only a handful of Americans at that time to receive this honor. Carver's promotion of
peanuts gained him the most notability. In 1919, Carver wrote to a peanut company
about the potential he saw for peanut milk. Both he and the peanut industry seemed
unaware that in 1917 William Melhuish had secured patent #1,243,855 for a milk
substitute made from peanuts and soybeans.
The United Peanut Associations of America invited Carver to speak at their 1920
convention. He discussed "The Possibilities of the Peanut" and exhibited 145 peanut
products. By 1920, the U.S. peanut farmers were being undercut by low prices on
imported peanuts from the Republic of China.
In 1921 peanut farmers and industry representatives planned to appear at
Congressional hearings to ask for a tariff. Based on the quality of Carver's presentation
at their convention, they asked the African-American professor to testify on the tariff
issue before the Ways and Means Committee of the United States House of
Representatives. Due to segregation, it was highly unusual for an African American to
appear as an expert witness at Congress representing European-American industry and
farmers. Southern congressmen, reportedly shocked at Carver's arriving to testify, were
said to have mocked him.[citation needed] As he talked about the importance of the
peanut and its uses for American agriculture, the committee members repeatedly
extended the time for his testimony. The Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922 was passed

including one on imported peanuts. Carver's testifying to Congress made him widely
known as a public figure.
Life while famous
During the last two decades of his life, Carver seemed to enjoy his celebrity status. He
was often to be found on the road promoting Tuskegee, peanuts, and racial harmony.
Although he only published six agricultural bulletins after 1922, he published articles in
peanut industry journals and wrote a syndicated newspaper column, "Professor
Carver's Advice". Business leaders came to seek his help, and he often responded with
free advice. Three American presidentsTheodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge and
Franklin Rooseveltmet with him, and the Crown Prince of Sweden studied with him for
three weeks. From 1923 to 1933, Carver toured white Southern colleges for the
Commission on Interracial Cooperation.[25]
With his increasing notability, Carver became the subject of biographies and articles.
Raleigh H. Merritt contacted him for his biography published in 1929. Merritt wrote,
"At present not a great deal has been done to utilize Dr. Carver's discoveries
commercially. He says that he is merely scratching the surface of scientific
investigations of the possibilities of the peanut and other Southern products."[28]
In 1932 the writer James Saxon Childers wrote that Carver and his peanut products
were almost solely responsible for the rise in U.S. peanut production after the boll
weevil devastated the American cotton crop beginning about 1892. His article, "A Boy
Who Was Traded for a Horse" (1932), in The American Magazine, and its 1937 reprint
in Reader's Digest, contributed to this myth about Carver's influence. Other popular
media tended to exaggerate Carver's impact on the peanut industry.[29]
From 1933 to 1935, Carver worked to develop peanut oil massages to treat infantile
paralysis (polio).[25] Ultimately researchers found that the massages, not the peanut oil,
provided the benefits of maintaining some mobility to paralyzed limbs.
From 1935 to 1937, Carver participated in the USDA Disease Survey. Carver had
specialized in plant diseases and mycology for his master's degree.
In 1937, Carver attended two chemurgy conferences, an emerging field in the 1930s,
during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, concerned with developing new
products from crops.[25] He was invited by Henry Ford to speak at the conference held
in Dearborn, Michigan, and they developed a friendship. That year Carver's health
declined, and Ford later installed an elevator at the Tuskegee dormitory where Carver
lived, so that the elderly man would not have to climb stairs.[5][30]
Carver had been frugal in his life, and in his seventies established a legacy by creating
a museum on his work and the George Washington Carver Foundation at Tuskegee in
1938 to continue agricultural research. He donated nearly $60,000 in his savings to
create the foundation.[30]
Legacy and honors
1923, Spingarn Medal from the NAACP, awarded annually for outstanding
achievement.[25]
1928, honorary doctorate from Simpson College
1939, the Roosevelt Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Southern Agriculture
1940, Carver established the George Washington Carver Foundation at the Tuskegee
Institute. *1941, The George Washington Carver Museum was dedicated at the
Tuskegee Institute.

 1942, Ford built a replica of Carver's birth cabin at the Henry Ford Museum and
Greenfield Village in Dearborn as a tribute.
1942, Ford dedicated a laboratory in Dearborn named after Carver.
1943, Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver launched.
1965, Ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656)
launched.
1969, Iowa State University constructs Carver Hall in honor of Carver a graduate of
the university.[31]
19xx?, the US Congress designated January 5, the anniversary of his death, as
George Washington Carver Recognition Day.[32][citation needed]
2007, the Missouri Botanical Gardens has a garden area named in his honor, with a
commemorative statue and material about his work
Personal life
Carver never married, but at age forty, he began a three-year courtship with Miss Sarah
L. Hunt, an elementary school teacher and the sister-in-law of Tuskegee Institute
Treasurer Warren Logan, which lasted until she took a teaching job in California.[33]
When he was seventy, Carver established a friendship and research partnership with
the scientist Austin W. Curtis, Jr, a much younger graduate of Cornell University who
had some teaching experience. Carver bequeathed to Curtis his royalties from an
authorized 1943 biography by Rackham Holt.[34]
After Carver died in 1943, Curtis was fired from Tuskegee Institute. He left Alabama and
resettled in Detroit. He manufactured and sold peanut-based personal care
products.[35]
Death and legacy
Upon returning home one day, Carver took a bad fall down a flight of stairs; he was
found unconscious by a maid who took him to a hospital. Carver died January 5, 1943,
at the age of 78 from complications (anemia) resulting from this fall. He was buried next
to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee University. Due to his frugality, Carver's life
savings totaled $60,000, all of which he donated in his last years and at his death to the
Carver Museum and to the George Washington Carver Foundation.[36]
On his grave was written, He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither,
he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world.
A movement to establish a U.S. national monument to Carver began before his death.
Because of World War II, such non-war expenditures were banned by presidential
order. Missouri senator Harry S. Truman sponsored a bill in favor of a monument. In a
committee hearing on the bill, one supporter said:
"The bill is not simply a momentary pause on the part of busy men engaged in the
conduct of the war, to do honor to one of the truly great Americans of this country, but it
is in essence a blow against the Axis, it is in essence a war measure in the sense that it
will further unleash and release the energies of roughly 15,000,000 Negro people in this
country for full support of our war effort."[25]
The bill passed unanimously in both houses.
On July 14, 1943,[37] President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated $30,000 for the
George Washington Carver National Monument west-southwest of Diamond, Missouri
the area where Carver had spent time in his childhood. This was the first national
monument dedicated to an African American and the first to honor someone other than

a president. The 210-acre (0.8 km2) national monument complex includes a bust of
Carver, a -mile nature trail, a museum, the 1881 Moses Carver house, and the Carver
cemetery. The national monument was not opened until July 1953.
In December 1947, a fire broke out in the Carver Museum, and much of the collection
was damaged. Time magazine reported that all but three of the 48 Carver paintings at
the museum were destroyed. His best-known painting, displayed at the World's
Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, depicts a yucca and cactus. This canvas
survived and has undergone conservation. It is displayed together with several of his
other paintings.[38] Carver appeared on U.S. commemorative stamps in 1948. A
second stamp of face value 32 was issued on 3 February 1998 as part of the
Celebrate the Century stamp sheet series, and he was depicted on a commemorative
half dollar coin from 1951 to 1954. Two ships, the Liberty ship SS George Washington
Carver and the nuclear submarine USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656) were
named in his honor.
In 1977, Carver was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. In 1990, Carver
was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 1994, Iowa State University
awarded Carver Doctor of Humane Letters. In 2000, Carver was a charter inductee in
the USDA Hall of Heroes as the "Father of Chemurgy".[39]
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed George Washington Carver on his list of 100
Greatest African Americans.[40]
In 2005, Carver's research at the Tuskegee Institute was designated a National Historic
Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society.[41] On February 15, 2005, an
episode of Modern Marvels included scenes from within Iowa State University's Food
Sciences Building and about Carver's work. In 2005, the Missouri Botanical Garden in
St. Louis, Missouri, opened a George Washington Carver garden in his honor, which
includes a life-size statue of him.
Many institutions honor George Washington Carver to this day. Dozens of elementary
schools and high schools are named after him. National Basketball Associationstar
David Robinson and his wife, Valerie, founded an academy named after Carver; it
opened on September 17, 2001, in San Antonio, Texas.[42]
Reputed inventions
George Washington Carver reputedly discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and
hundreds more for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. Among the listed items that
he suggested to southern farmers to help them economically were adhesives, axle
grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes (a biofuel), ink,instant coffee,
linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving
cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain. Three patents
(one for cosmetics; patent number 1,522,176, and two for paints and stains; patent
numbers 1,541,478 and 1,632,365) were issued to George Washington Carver in the
years 1925 to 1927; however, they were not commercially successful.[43] Aside from
these patents and some recipes for food, Carver left no records of formulae or
procedures for making his products.[44] He did not keep a laboratory notebook.
Carver's research was intended to provide replacements for commercial products,
which were generally beyond the budget of the small one-horse farmer. A
misconception grew that his research on products for subsistence farmers were
developed by others commercially to change Southern agriculture.[45][46] Carver's

work to provide them with resources for more independence from the cash economy
foreshadowed the "appropriate technology" work of E.F. Schumacher.
Peanut products
Dennis Keeney, director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State
University, wrote in the Leopold Letter (newsletter):
Carver worked on improving soils, growing crops with low inputs, and using species that
fixed nitrogen (hence, the work on the cowpea and the peanut). Carver wrote in 'The
Need of Scientific Agriculture in the South': "The virgin fertility of our soils and the vast
amount of unskilled labor have been more of a curse than a blessing to agriculture. This
exhaustive system for cultivation, the destruction of forest, the rapid and almost
constant decomposition of organic matter, have made our agricultural problem one
requiring more brains than of the North, East or West."[47]
Carver marketed a few of his peanut products. The Carver Penol Company sold a
mixture of creosote and peanuts as a patent medicine for respiratory diseases such as
tuberculosis. Other ventures were The Carver Products Company and the Carvoline
Company. Carvoline Antiseptic Hair Dressing was a mix of peanut oil and lanolin.
Carvoline Rubbing Oil was a peanut oil for massages.
Carver was often credited with the invention of peanut butter. While he may have made
peanut butter, the preparation arose in other cultures independently. TheAztecs were
known to have made it from ground peanuts in the 15th century, and Marcellus Gilmore
Edson was awarded U.S. Patent 306,727 (for its manufacture) in 1884, when Carver
was 20.[48][49]
Sweet potato products
Carver is also associated with sweet potato products. In his 1922 sweet potato bulletin,
Carver listed a few dozen recipes, "many of which I have copied verbatim from Bulletin
No. 129, U. S. Department of Agriculture".[50] Carver's records included the following
sweet potato products: 73 dyes, 17 wood fillers, 14 candies, 5 library pastes, 5
breakfast foods, 4 starches, 4 flours, and 3 molasses.[51] He also had listings for
vinegars, dry coffee and instant coffee, candy, after-dinner mints, orange drops, and
lemon drops.
Carver bulletins
During his more than four decades at Tuskegee, Carver's official published work
consisted mainly of 44 practical bulletins for farmers.[52] His first bulletin in 1898 was on
feeding acorns to farm animals. His final bulletin in 1943 was about the peanut. He also
published six bulletins on sweet potatoes, five on cotton, and four on cowpeas. Some
other individual bulletins dealt with alfalfa, wild plum, tomato, ornamental plants, corn,
poultry, dairying, hogs, preserving meats in hot weather, and nature study in schools.
His most popular bulletin, How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for
Human Consumption, was first published in 1916[4] and was reprinted many times. It
gave a short overview of peanut crop production and contained a list of recipes from
other agricultural bulletins, cookbooks, magazines, and newspapers, such as the
Peerless Cookbook, Good Housekeeping, and Berry's Fruit Recipes. Carver's was far
from the first American agricultural bulletin devoted to peanuts,[53][54][55][56][57] but
his bulletins did seem to be more popular and widespread than previous ones.
Religion
George Washington Carver believed he could have faith both in God and science and

integrated them into his life. He testified on many occasions that his faith inJesus was
the only mechanism by which he could effectively pursue and perform the art of
science.[58] George Washington Carver became a Christian when he was still a young
boy, as he wrote in connection to his conversion in 1931:[59]
"I was just a mere boy when converted, hardly ten years old. There isn't much of a story
to it. God just came into my heart one afternoon while I was alone in the 'loft' of our big
barn while I was shelling corn to carry to the mill to be ground into meal.
A dear little white boy, one of our neighbors, about my age came by one Saturday
morning, and in talking and playing he told me he was going to Sunday school tomorrow
morning. I was eager to know what a Sunday school was. He said they sang hymns and
prayed. I asked him what prayer was and what they said. I do not remember what he
said; only remember that as soon as he left I climbed up into the 'loft,' knelt down by the
barrel of corn and prayed as best I could. I do not remember what I said. I only recall
that I felt so good that I prayed several times before I quit.
My brother and myself were the only colored children in that neighborhood and of
course, we could not go to church or Sunday school, or school of any kind.
That was my simple conversion, and I have tried to keep the faith."
G. W. Carver; Letter to Isabelle Coleman; July 24, 1931
He was not expected to live past his twenty-first birthday due to failing health. He lived
well past the age of twenty-one, and his belief deepened as a result.[23]Throughout his
career, he always found friendship with other Christians. He relied on them especially
when criticized by the scientific community and media regarding his research
methodology.[60]
Carver viewed faith in Jesus Christ as a means of destroying both barriers of racial
disharmony and social stratification.[61] He was as concerned with his students'
character development as he was with their intellectual development. He compiled a list
of eight cardinal virtues for his students to strive toward:
Be clean both inside and out.
Neither look up to the rich nor down on the poor.
Lose, if need be, without squealing.
Win without bragging.
Always be considerate of women, children, and older people.
Be too brave to lie.
Be too generous to cheat.
Take your share of the world and let others take theirs.[42]
Beginning in 1906 at Tuskegee, Carver led a Bible class on Sundays for several
students at their request. He regularly portrayed stories by acting them out.[42] He
responded to critics with this: "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon
way, you will command the attention of the world."[62]
Christian book series for children and adults about great men and women of faith
feature George Washington Carver as a figure of faith and achievement. One such
series, the Sower series, includes his story alongside those of such men as Isaac
Newton, Samuel Morse, Johannes Kepler, and the Wright brothers. Other Christian
literary references include Man's Slave, God's Scientist, by David R. Collins. Sam
Wellman's Heroes of the Faith series includes George Washington Carver: Inventor and
Naturalist.

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