query: what did george washington carver make with peanuts?

title: George Washington Carver

text: market his products. The most important was the Carver Penol Company, which sold a mixture of creosote and peanuts as a patent medicine for respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis. Sales were lackluster and the product was ineffective according to the Food and Drug Administration. 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 is often mistakenly credited with the invention of peanut butter. By the time Carver published "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways

title: George Washington Carver

text: of Preparing it For Human Consumption" in 1916, many methods of preparation of peanut butter had been developed or patented by various pharmacists, doctors and food scientists working in the US and Canada. The Aztec were known to have made peanut butter from ground peanuts as early as the 15th century. Canadian pharmacist Marcellus Gilmore Edson was awarded (for its manufacture) in 1884, 12 years before Carver began his work at Tuskegee. Carver is also associated with developing sweet potato products. In his 1922 sweet potato bulletin, Carver listed a few dozen recipes, "many of which I have copied verbatim

title: Carver Hall

text: Carver Hall Carver Hall is an academic building completed in 1969 at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa to accommodate rapid increases in enrollment. It is named for George Washington Carver, who earned his bachelor's degree from Iowa State University in 1894 and his master's in 1896 and served on the Iowa State faculty. George Washington Carver is best known for his exhaustive development of peanut products akin to peanut butter. A statue of him created by the internationally acclaimed sculptor Christian Petersen is displayed in a courtyard north of the building's lobby, to honor George Washington Carver's lifelong work

title: George Washington Carver

text: Carver's was far from the first American agricultural bulletin devoted to peanuts, but his bulletins did seem to be more popular and widespread than previous ones. George Washington Carver George Washington Carver (1860s – January 5, 1943), was an American botanist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. While a professor at Tuskegee Institute, Carver developed techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, as a source of their own food and to improve their quality

title: George Washington Carver

text: George Washington Carver George Washington Carver (1860s – January 5, 1943), was an American botanist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. While a professor at Tuskegee Institute, Carver developed techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, as a source of their own food and to improve their quality of life. The most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using peanuts. Although he spent years developing and promoting numerous

title: George Washington Carver

text: products made from peanuts, none became commercially successful. Apart from his work to improve the lives of farmers, Carver was also a leader in promoting environmentalism. He received numerous honors for his work, including the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP. In an era of very high racial polarization, his fame reached beyond the black community. He was widely recognized and praised in the white community for his many achievements and talents. In 1941, "Time" magazine dubbed Carver a "Black Leonardo". George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Diamond Grove, Newton County, near Crystal Place, now known as Diamond, Missouri,

title: George Washington Carver

text: I am acquainted." 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. 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. This work, and especially his speaking to

title: George Washington Carver

text: and has undergone conservation. It is displayed together with several of his other paintings. Carver was featured on U.S. 1948 commemorative stamps. From 1951 to 1954, he was depicted on a commemorative half dollar coin. A second stamp honoring Carver, of face value 32¢, was issued on 3 February 1998 as part of the Celebrate the Century stamp sheet series. 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

title: The George Washington Carver Museum

text: The George Washington Carver Museum The George Washington Carver Museum is a museum located in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States. It is a part of the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site. The museum, located on the campus of Tuskegee University, is managed by the US National Park Service, with self-guided tours. The George Washington Carver Museum has several exhibits, including crop rotation theories that helped the Southern United States's economy boom, and the history of George Washington Carver himself. The museum consists of many exhibits, interpretive programs, a book sales area and two introductory films on George Washington Carver and Booker

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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. 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 notice. 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

title: Carver Houses

text: Carver Houses Carver Houses, or George Washington Carver Houses, is a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in Spanish Harlem, a neighborhood of Manhattan, at . The development is named after George Washington Carver (1864-1943), an African American chemist, botanist, and educator who, despite being born a slave, developed many uses for soybeans, peanuts, and sweet potatoes. George Washington Carver spent much time working to improve other African Americans' lives. Carver Houses has 13 buildings, on a campus with an area of . Nine of those (I-II, V-IX, XII-XIII) are fifteen stories

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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 continue to honor George Washington Carver. A garden and statue of him are dedicated in the noted Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. Dozens of elementary schools and high schools are named after him. National Basketball Association star David Robinson and his wife, Valerie, founded an academy named after Carver; it opened on September 17, 2001, in San Antonio, Texas. The Carver Community Cultural Center, a historic center located in San Antonio, is named

title: SS George Washington Carver

text: took her to Dutch Harbor, Shemya, Attu, Adak, Whittier, with a return to Seattle. A second voyage, in late March 1946, had the ship visit Anchorage, Seward, Dutch Harbor, Adak, Amchitka, Shemya, Adak a second time, eventually returning to Seattle. The ship continued on similar runs into 1947. On 21 March 1947, "George Washington Carver" entered the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, California. On 9 January 1964 the ship was withdrawn by First Steel & Ship Corp. for scrapping. SS George Washington Carver SS "George Washington Carver" was a Liberty ship built for the United States Maritime Commission

title: George Washington Carver Bridge

text: over the water framing the views of the skyline and Iowa's tallest skyscraper, creating a welcoming gateway to the city from the airport. The George Washington Carver Bridge was completed in 2004 with Boston-based transportation architect Miguel Rosales of Rosales + Partners providing concept development, preliminary aesthetic design, and community participation for the city of Des Moines. The lead engineering firm for the bridge was Earth Tech Inc. George Washington Carver Bridge The George Washington Carver Bridge is located in Des Moines, Iowa over the Raccoon River. Part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway, the bridge provides three roadway

title: Carver Houses

text: South District Citywide Council of Presidents. Carver Houses is serviced by the twenty-third precinct of the New York City Police Department, and is governed by Manhattan Community Board 11. Carver Houses Carver Houses, or George Washington Carver Houses, is a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in Spanish Harlem, a neighborhood of Manhattan, at . The development is named after George Washington Carver (1864-1943), an African American chemist, botanist, and educator who, despite being born a slave, developed many uses for soybeans, peanuts, and sweet potatoes. George Washington Carver spent much time

title: George Washington Carver School District

text: from Carver because Carver owed DPS $125,053.67 ($ according to inflation) in tuition and because DPS's own schools became overcrowded. At the time 24 teenagers at the 9th grade level resided in the Carver district. George Washington Carver School District George Washington Carver School District was a majority-black school district in Royal Oak Township, Michigan. It separated from the Clinton School District in 1945 as more African-Americans moved to the area. In 1960 Governor of Michigan G. Mennen Williams consolidated the Carver School District, along with its elementary school, into the Oak Park School District because the Carver district no

title: George Washington Carver National Monument

text: George Washington Carver National Monument George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service located about 2 miles west of Diamond, Missouri; the national monument was founded on July 14, 1943, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who dedicated $30,000 to the monument. It was the first national monument dedicated to a black American and first to a non-president. The site preserves of the boyhood home of George Washington Carver, as well as the 1881 Moses Carver house and the Carver cemetery. His boyhood home consists of rolling hills, woodlands, and prairies. The park has a -mile (1.2

title: SS George Washington Carver

text: SS George Washington Carver SS "George Washington Carver" was a Liberty ship built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. The ship was named in honor of George Washington Carver, and was the second Liberty ship named for an African American. The ship was initially assigned by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) to the American South African Line (Farrell Lines), Inc. for merchant service. In November 1943 the ship was allocated to the United States Army by the WSA and was converted to hospital ship USAHS "Dogwood". The ship made multiple trips to ports in England from

title: USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656)

text: USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656) USS "George Washington Carver" (SSBN-656), a fleet ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for George Washington Carver (1865–1943), an American researcher and inventor. The contract for "George Washington Carver"s construction was awarded on 29 July 1963, and her keel was laid down on 24 August 1964 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at Newport News, Virginia. She was launched on 14 August 1965, sponsored by Miss Marian Anderson (1897–1993), and commissioned on 15 June 1966 with Captain R. D. Donavan in command of

title: USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656)

text: assisted on the west coast in various assignments before finally entering the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington. "George Washington Carver" was both decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 18 March 1993 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, where her scrapping via the U.S. Navys Ship and Submarine Recycling Program was completed on 12 March 1994. USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656) USS "George Washington Carver" (SSBN-656), a fleet ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for George Washington Carver (1865–1943), an American researcher and inventor.

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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. 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." Even as an adult Carver spoke with a high pitch. Historian Linda O. McMurry noted

text: George Washington Carver School District George Washington Carver School District was a majority-black school district in Royal Oak Township, Michigan. It separated from the Clinton School District in 1945 as more African-Americans moved to the area. In 1960 Governor of Michigan G. Mennen Williams consolidated the Carver School District, along with its elementary school, into the Oak Park School District because the Carver district no longer had sufficient taxes to pay for a senior high school services, and no area school districts voluntarily took its students for high school. In 1959 Detroit Public Schools (DPS) stopped accepting high school students

title: George Washington Carver

text: museum of his work, as well as the George Washington Carver Foundation at Tuskegee in 1938 to continue agricultural research. He donated nearly in his savings to create the foundation. Carver never married. At age forty, he began a courtship with Sarah L. Hunt, an elementary school teacher and the sister-in-law of Warren Logan, Treasurer of Tuskegee Institute. This lasted three years until she took a teaching job in California. In her 2015 biography, Christina Vella reviews his relationships and suggests that Carver was bisexual and constrained by mores of his historic period. When he was seventy, Carver established a

title: USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656)

text: the Blue Crew and Lieutenant Commander Carl J. Lidel in command of the Gold Crew. Following shakedown, "George Washington Carver"'s began her first strategic deterrent patrol on 12 December 1966. "George Washington Carver" was in dry dock at Naval Station Rota, Spain for overhaul beginning February 1977. A team from Electric Boat Div. Groton, CT was deployed to complete the overhaul/refit. In 1991, "George Washington Carver"'s ballistic missile had missiles removed and tubes were filled with ballast at Naval Weapons Station, Charleston, SC. The submarine and crew then received a change of homeport to Naval Submarine Base, Bangor, WA and

title: George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center

text: George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center The George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center is a museum and cultural center in east Austin, Texas, housed in the former George Washington Carver branch of the Austin Public Library. Named in honor of George Washington Carver, the facility has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005. The small, wood-frame building was constructed in 1926 on the corner of Ninth and Guadalupe Streets. When it was replaced by a larger stone structure in 1933, the building was moved to the east side of town, on Angelina Street, to

title: George Washington Carver Bridge

text: George Washington Carver Bridge The George Washington Carver Bridge is located in Des Moines, Iowa over the Raccoon River. Part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway, the bridge provides three roadway lanes in one direction and two roadway lanes and one bikeway/pedestrian lane in the opposite direction framed by two arches. The main supporting structures and free standing arches are visible at the roadway level. The roadway is suspended by cables from two steel arches, painted blue to complement the site's abundant greenery and to clearly mark the river crossing. The arches, with their concrete superstructures, appear to float

title: George Washington Carver High School (Birmingham, Alabama)

text: George Washington Carver High School (Birmingham, Alabama) George Washington Carver High School for Health Professions, Engineering, & Technology (Carver) is a four-year public high school in Birmingham, Alabama. It is one of seven high schools in the Birmingham City School System and is named for the American botanist and inventor, George Washington Carver. School colors are royal blue, red, and white, and the mascot is the Ram. Carver competes in AHSAA Class 5A athletics. Carver's current campus was completed in 2001 on a site that was formerly the North Birmingham Golf Course. It was Birmingham City Schools' first new high

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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. 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 crops both restored nitrogen

title: George Washington Carver

text: figure. During the last two decades of his life, Carver seemed to enjoy his celebrity status. He was often on the road promoting Tuskegee University, 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 presidents—Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Roosevelt—met with him, and the Crown Prince of Sweden studied with him for three weeks. From 1923 to 1933, Carver toured white Southern colleges

title: George Washington Carver State Park

text: the state, serving from 1950 to 1958. James Clarence Benham, father of Georgia Supreme Court Justice Robert Benham, became Carver Park's second park manager, serving for three years. George Washington Carver State Park George Washington Carver State Park was a state park in the U.S. state of Georgia. It existed from 1950 to 1975, when it was then leased to Bartow County as a county park. Red Top Mountain, located on Lake Allatoona, consists of and derives its name from the rich red color of the soil that comes from the high iron content in the ground. In 1950, the

title: George Washington Carver School (Coral Gables, Florida)

text: George Washington Carver School (Coral Gables, Florida) George Washington Carver Junior High School is located in Coral Gables, Florida, and is under the supervision of the Dade County Public Schools. The school opened in 1899 as a black school, for black students residing in Dade County, although it traces its beginning to an earlier private school for black children, informally known as "The Little Schoolhouse," which opened in 1899 as the private Dade Training School. In 1943, when he died, the school was renamed for George Washington Carver. Carver was desegregated by a court order in 1970. The middle school

title: The George Washington Carver Museum

text: fair demonstrations became part of the museum. Carver first served as Director of the Agricultural Department where he developed agricultural extension services for black farmers and homemakers. Milbank Hall was the site of his agricultural experiments. His last laboratory was housed in the Carver Museum. Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) donated the home of Booker T. Washington and the Carver Museum to the National Park Service in 1977, and much of the Carver collection in 1979. For more than forty years, Dr George Washington Carver labored at Tuskegee Institute. He was the son of a slave woman, whose owner was

title: SS George Washington Carver

text: the hospital ship returned stateside, putting in at San Francisco in January 1946. The ship was no longer needed as a hospital ship at that time and put into the Marine Repair Shop at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation for conversion to carry a combination of troops and military dependents. During this interval, the ship reverted to her original name as USAT "George Washington Carver". After the work was completed, the ship departed for her new homeport of Seattle. The ship was assigned to duty between Seattle and ports in Alaska. "George Washington Carver"’s first voyage in this role

title: SS George Washington Carver

text: by Lena Horne, and delivered 24 May 1943, taking 42 days from start to delivery. During the ship’s construction, photographer E. F. Joseph, on behalf of the Office of War Information, took a series of photographs showing predominately African American men and women working on "George Washington Carver". A crowd of 1,500 gathered to watch the launching of "George Washington Carver" on 7 May 1943. The ceremonies were organized by the United Negro Labor Committee, and that organization’s president, C. L. Dellums, spoke to crowd. Lena Horne, on a break from filming "Stormy Weather", was the sponsor, and welder Beatrice

title: SS George Washington Carver

text: its homeport of Charleston, South Carolina, before sailing for duty in the Philippines in 1945. In January 1946, the ship was converted to carry a combination of troops and military dependents as USAT "George Washington Carver". The ship was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet in 1947 and was sold for scrapping in 1964. SS "George Washington Carver" (MC Hull No. 542) was laid down on 12 April 1943 on shipway 7 at Yard No. 1 by Permanente Metals Corp. of Richmond, California, as a standard Liberty ship. The ship was launched on 7 May 1943 and sponsored

title: George Washington Carver

text: inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 1994, Iowa State University awarded Carver a Doctor of Humane Letters. In 2000, Carver was a charter inductee in the USDA Hall of Heroes as the "Father of Chemurgy". In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed George Washington Carver as one of 100 Greatest African Americans. In 2005, Carver's research at the Tuskegee Institute was designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society. 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,

text: 93% of students are African-American, 6% are Hispanic, and 1% are white. Roughly 87% of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch. Carver has a graduation rate of 57%. Approximately 52% of its students meet or exceed proficiency standards in mathematics, and 60% meet or exceed standards in reading. The average ACT score for Carver students is 18. Carver competes in AHSAA Class 5A athletics and currently fields teams in the following sports: Carver has won three state championships: George Washington Carver High School (Birmingham, Alabama) George Washington Carver High School for Health Professions, Engineering, & Technology (Carver) is

title: The George Washington Carver Museum

text: did would be available to the public for the general good of all. The George Washington Carver Museum was authorized by the trustees of Tuskegee Institute in 1938 at the request of President Frederick D. Patterson. The Museum, formerly the school laundry, housed Dr Carver's extensive collections of native plants, minerals, birds and vegetables; his products from the peanut, sweet potato and clays; and his numerous paintings, drawings, and textile art. The Museum was formally dedicated by Mr and Mrs Henry Ford in 1941. In January 1943, Dr Carver died and was buried in the Campus Cemetery. In 1947, a

title: George Washington Carver High School (Rockville, Maryland)

text: to any other colleges in the state. In 1960, the schools were integrated with the public schools. After desegregation, Carver's students were distributed to formerly all-white schools throughout the county. The board took over the facility for its administrative offices, dropping the Carver name, but returned to using the name after a petition by the NAACP and local black ministers. In 2002, the building was named a Rockville Historic District. Because some schools remained all-white, they were integrated by transferring one teacher from Carver. George Washington Carver High School (Rockville, Maryland) George Washington Carver High School and Junior College was

title: George Washington Carver High School (Baytown, Texas)

text: George Washington Carver High School (Baytown, Texas) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Baytown, Texas. It served as the high school for black students until the public schools were integrated. The school closed in 1967 when the schools were integrated. In 1921, the first school for elementary aged black children in Baytown opened under the name Goose Creek School for Coloreds. In 1927 it expanded to include 9th grade. In 1941 it was named George Washington Carver High School and included a fully accredited high school. A new building was built in 1948 and closed

title: George Washington Carver High School (Carrollton, Georgia)

text: Carver High Museum and Archives was founded to collect and preserve the history of Carver and the African-American community of Carrollton. In the 1955 and 1956 school years, every black senior at Carver applied for admission to the University of West Georgia, and all were denied admission because of their skin color. In 2002, the college apologized, and an anonymous donor created a scholarship fund for the descendants of the students who had been denied admission. George Washington Carver High School (Carrollton, Georgia) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Carrollton, Georgia. It served as the

title: George Washington Carver High School (Picayune, Mississippi)

text: George Washington Carver High School (Picayune, Mississippi) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Picayune, Mississippi. It served as the high school for black students until the public schools were integrated in 1970. The buildings are now Carver Elementary School. Carver was founded as East Side Colored School in 1919. When the school was renamed Carver, it also absorbed another black school, the Pearl River County Training School. That school had been originally constructed in 1900, then replaced in 1919 by a Rosenwald School, also known as Pearl River County Training School. Because the school was

title: George Washington Carver

text: in 1917 William Melhuish had secured 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

title: George Washington Carver High School (Bunnell, Florida)

text: George Washington Carver High School (Bunnell, Florida) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Bunnell, Florida. It served as the high school for black students until the public schools were integrated in 1970. The high school was built in 1949 on 12 acres along Drain Street. It was integrated with Bunnell High School in 1970, with the high school students attending Bunnell. The following summer, Bunnell High School burned down, and students went to Carver until a new school, Flagler Palm Coast High School, could be opened. Although the rest of the buildings have been torn

text: km) nature trail, film, museum, and an interactive exhibit area for students. It is open year-round, from 9 am to 5 pm. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. George Washington Carver National Monument George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service located about 2 miles west of Diamond, Missouri; the national monument was founded on July 14, 1943, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who dedicated $30,000 to the monument. It was the first national monument dedicated to a black American and first to a non-president. The site preserves of the

title: The George Washington Carver Museum

text: the 1970s will note a smaller number of artifacts on display. It has not been necessary to exhibit several hundred extra items in order to provide a comprehensive interpretive experience. Items not on display are stored in a controlled environment. Ownership of a large selection of African artifacts formerly displayed in the Museum was retained by Tuskegee University. The George Washington Carver Museum The George Washington Carver Museum is a museum located in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States. It is a part of the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site. The museum, located on the campus of Tuskegee University, is managed by

title: George Washington Carver State Park

text: George Washington Carver State Park George Washington Carver State Park was a state park in the U.S. state of Georgia. It existed from 1950 to 1975, when it was then leased to Bartow County as a county park. Red Top Mountain, located on Lake Allatoona, consists of and derives its name from the rich red color of the soil that comes from the high iron content in the ground. In 1950, the state initially leased the land for 25 years from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The park served not only to preserve the area’s history, but also boost

text: in 1967, when the schools were integrated. The buildings continued to be used to house Carver Middle and Carver Elementary until 1995, when an abandoned oil pit was discovered on the property. They were razed in 2002 due to safety concerns. The athletic teams, known as the panthers, won 8 state sports championships. The band won nine state championships. George Washington Carver High School (Baytown, Texas) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Baytown, Texas. It served as the high school for black students until the public schools were integrated. The school closed in 1967 when

title: George Washington Carver High School (Brownsville, Tennessee)

text: served as principal until the last class graduated in 1970. When the schools were integrated, the high school students moved to Haywood High School, while the younger children were transferred to the newly built Eastside Elementary School. Carver's peak enrollment was over 1,600 students, accompanied by a staff of over 50. The buildings were located within the Dunbar-Carver Historic District and the former high school is now the site of the Dunbar Carver Museum of African-American history. George Washington Carver High School (Brownsville, Tennessee) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Brownsville, Tennessee. It served as

text: underfunded, it was not uncommon for classes to contain over 50 students. In the late 1960s, Carver's football team, under coach Marion L. Henry, gained national attention when it went on a 64 game winning streak. The buildings are now occupied by the Southside Upper and Lower elementaries. Picayune now hosts the Carver Culture Museum which includes a history of Carver High School, a Picayune section, and a black history section. George Washington Carver High School (Picayune, Mississippi) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Picayune, Mississippi. It served as the high school for black students

title: George Washington Carver High School (Memphis, Tennessee)

text: George Washington Carver High School (Memphis, Tennessee) George Washington Carver High School was a public high school in Memphis, Tennessee from the late 1950s until 2016. Prior to integration, it was a school for black students. Carver was opened in 1957 as a school for the black students in the Riverside neighborhood of South Memphis. Like many black schools of the time, it received far less funding than the white schools. As such, it was operated without a cafeteria. The school's first guidance counselor was Frances Hooks, the wife of activist Benjamin Hooks. For 59 years, Carver educated students in

title: George Washington Carver High School (Montgomery, Alabama)

text: George Washington Carver High School (Montgomery, Alabama) George Washington Carver High School is a public high school in Montgomery, Alabama. It is a part of the Montgomery Public Schools system. The groundbreaking for the new Carver High School was held April 2, 2008 at the new construction site just off Oak Street across from the existing school. Its design utilizes modern advances in architecture, construction and technology. The $36 million school is the first of six new schools scheduled in the first phase of the MPS building program. The Carver High School ribbon cutting ceremony was held in August 2010

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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. The bill passed unanimously in both houses. On July 14, 1943, 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

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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. Washington praised Carver in his 1911 memoir, "My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience". Washington called Carver "one of the most thoroughly scientific men of the Negro race with whom

text: George Washington Carver High School (Brownsville, Tennessee) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Brownsville, Tennessee. It served as the high school for black students until the public schools were integrated. Dunbar School was built in Brownsville in the 1860s with money raised from local black residents as the first public school for African-Americans. The principal was John Gloster, and the assistant principal was George Currie. It served children in grades 1 through 8 before the building was destroyed in a fire sometime between 1910 and 1920. Education continued for several years, housed in three local

text: down, the gym remains and is known as the Carver Center. Efforts by the county commission to tear the gym down in 2010 resulted in backlash from the community as well as the school board, and it was instead refurbished and ownership returned to the school system. George Washington Carver High School (Bunnell, Florida) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Bunnell, Florida. It served as the high school for black students until the public schools were integrated in 1970. The high school was built in 1949 on 12 acres along Drain Street. It was integrated

text: the South Memphis Area. In 2016, the Shelby County School Board voted to close the school. At the time of its closure, it was the most segregated school in Memphis. George Washington Carver High School (Memphis, Tennessee) George Washington Carver High School was a public high school in Memphis, Tennessee from the late 1950s until 2016. Prior to integration, it was a school for black students. Carver was opened in 1957 as a school for the black students in the Riverside neighborhood of South Memphis. Like many black schools of the time, it received far less funding than the white

text: for 2012 and 2015. It also earned a regional title in 2009. George Washington Carver High School (Montgomery, Alabama) George Washington Carver High School is a public high school in Montgomery, Alabama. It is a part of the Montgomery Public Schools system. The groundbreaking for the new Carver High School was held April 2, 2008 at the new construction site just off Oak Street across from the existing school. Its design utilizes modern advances in architecture, construction and technology. The $36 million school is the first of six new schools scheduled in the first phase of the MPS building program.

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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." During Washington's last five years at Tuskegee, Carver submitted or threatened his resignation several times: when the administration reorganized the agriculture programs, when he disliked a teaching assignment, to manage an experiment station elsewhere, and when he did not get summer teaching assignments in 1913–14. In each case, Washington smoothed

title: George Washington Carver High School (Delray Beach, Florida)

text: state championships in football. In 1947, Carver was the first black school in the state to host a track meet. George Washington Carver High School (Delray Beach, Florida) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Delray Beach, Florida. It served as the high school for black students until the public schools were integrated in 1970. Colored school number 4 closed in 1907. In 1914, William Robinson wrote to Booker T. Washington for advice on how to get the school reopened. At Washington's request, Clarence Walker came to an abandoned schoolhouse in Delray and opened the Delray

text: that the Emancipation Proclamation was enforced. So Legislature learned of freedom first, then the news reached The Pastor (who represents the faith leader in African American Community). The Pastor told the enslaved people represented by the Freed Man and Freed Woman, and they shared the news with youth-the Child figure. The blank pedestal is where visitors can stand and be a part of the piece and continue the Juneteenth Story—to remember, to reflect, and to be inspired to share the emancipation story with others. George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center The George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center is

text: George Washington Carver High School (Carrollton, Georgia) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Carrollton, Georgia. It served as the high school for black students until the public schools were integrated. The school closed when the schools were integrated. The first black school in Carrollton opened on Pearl street in 1913. In 1932, using funds raised from a bond issue by the city of Carrollton, along with matching funds from the Rosenwald Fund, the first school for black children that reached past elementary opened under the name Carroll County Training School. In 1954 a new building

text: George Washington Carver High School (Rockville, Maryland) George Washington Carver High School and Junior College was the high school for black children in Rockville prior to the integration of public schools' The school, the first high school for black children in Montgomery County, Maryland, originally opened in 1927 as Rockville Colored High School with 40 students. From 1945 to 1951, the school was known as Lincoln High School. In 1937, represented by Thurgood Marshall, Rockville Colored Elementary School principal William B. Gibbs, Jr. successfully sued the Montgomery County School Board over its practice of paying white teachers more than black

title: George Washington Carver

text: pathology and mycology first gained him national recognition and respect as a botanist. Carver received his master of science degree in 1896. Carver taught as the first black faculty member at Iowa State. In 1896, Booker T. Washington, the first principal and president of the Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), 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

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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, and rewarded Bentley. After slavery was abolished, Moses Carver and his wife Susan raised George and his older brother James as their own children. 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. George decided to go to a school for black children 10 miles (16 km) south in Neosho. When

title: George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology

text: amass a significant number of successful alumni: George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology, also known just as the Carver Center for Arts and Technology is a Baltimore County-wide public magnet high school originally established in 1992 as one of three geographically spread technology high schools, (others established earlier in 1970 were Western and Eastern Technical High Schools - [original names]). The Central Technical High School, was located in Towson, the county seat in Baltimore County, Maryland. In any given year, about 800 students attend, and typical class size is just

text: George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology, also known just as the Carver Center for Arts and Technology is a Baltimore County-wide public magnet high school originally established in 1992 as one of three geographically spread technology high schools, (others established earlier in 1970 were Western and Eastern Technical High Schools - [original names]). The Central Technical High School, was located in Towson, the county seat in Baltimore County, Maryland. In any given year, about 800 students attend, and typical class size is just under 20. The high school is primarily

title: George Washington Carver

text: for him. Carver was given credit in popular folklore for many inventions that did not come out of his lab. Three patents (one for cosmetics; , and two for paints and stains; and ) were issued to Carver in 1925 to 1927; however, they were not commercially successful. Aside from these patents and some recipes for food, Carver left no records of formulae or procedures for making his products. He did not keep a laboratory notebook. Mackintosh notes that, "Carver did not explicitly claim that he had personally discovered all the peanut attributes and uses he cited, but he said

title: George Washington Carver High School Home Economics Building

text: Program. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. George Washington Carver High School Home Economics Building The George Washington Carver High School Home Economics Building is a historic school building at 900 Pearl Street (between 9th and 10th Streets) in Augusta, Arkansas. It is a single-story L-shaped concrete block structure with a gable roof and modest vernacular styling. Built in 1944 with funding by local subscription, it is the only one of five buildings built between 1917 and 1948 for the education of Augusta's African-American population. The school remained segregated until integration took place

text: George Washington Carver High School Home Economics Building The George Washington Carver High School Home Economics Building is a historic school building at 900 Pearl Street (between 9th and 10th Streets) in Augusta, Arkansas. It is a single-story L-shaped concrete block structure with a gable roof and modest vernacular styling. Built in 1944 with funding by local subscription, it is the only one of five buildings built between 1917 and 1948 for the education of Augusta's African-American population. The school remained segregated until integration took place in 1970, and has been used since then to house the local Head Start

text: is overseen by a board of 3 doctors and a president headed by the Association of Care Medical Entity: Pres. Dr. Zachary M. Banks, Shannon Sejeck, Ph. D., Rolando Guitian, M.D., and Dr. Jorge Rodriguez-Anton. George Washington Carver School (Coral Gables, Florida) George Washington Carver Junior High School is located in Coral Gables, Florida, and is under the supervision of the Dade County Public Schools. The school opened in 1899 as a black school, for black students residing in Dade County, although it traces its beginning to an earlier private school for black children, informally known as "The Little Schoolhouse,"

text: From 1922 to 1937, Solomon Spady served as teacher and principal. Spady, a student of George Washington Carver, was also recommended by Washington. In 1937, the school was renamed George Washington Carver High School and expanded to include grades 1 through 12. The first 12th grade graduation came in 1939. Agriculture was an important part of the curriculum, and the students farmed a 10-acre plot adjacent to the school and sold the produce to the public. The school moved to its current location in 1958, and the old site for many years was used as S. D. Spady Elementary, which

text: George Washington Carver High School (Delray Beach, Florida) George Washington Carver High School was a public secondary school in Delray Beach, Florida. It served as the high school for black students until the public schools were integrated in 1970. Colored school number 4 closed in 1907. In 1914, William Robinson wrote to Booker T. Washington for advice on how to get the school reopened. At Washington's request, Clarence Walker came to an abandoned schoolhouse in Delray and opened the Delray County Training School using the Smith Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917, which was devised to encourage agricultural training.

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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

title: The George Washington Carver Museum

text: and more than 1000 photographs of life in Ghana and Nigeria were included. Between 1951 and 1962, Bess Bolden Walcott served as the curator of the Museum. Her work as a curator of the museum led to its becoming a National Park Service site. The Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site was authorized in 1974 and established on November 13, 1977. The George Washington Carver Museum, along with the Booker T. Washington home "The Oaks," was then deeded to the people of the United States. Both the Museum and "The Oaks" (the home of Booker T. Washington) were closed to the

text: was built for grades 8-12 and was named George Washington Carver High School. Carver had an initial enrollment of around 600, which remained fairly constant until the school closed. In 1965, a "school choice" plan was implemented, which allowed students to choose which high school they chose to attend regardless of race. A small number of black students chose to attend the previously all white Temple High School. In 1969, the courts mandated complete integration, and Carver was closed and all students were reassigned to previously all-white high schools. The buildings became the integrated Alabama Street School. In 2005, the

title: George Washington Carver

text: perceived him as arrogant. 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. In 1904, an Institute committee reported that Carver's reports on yields from the poultry yard were exaggerated, and Washington confronted Carver about the

text: decided that upon next school year (2008-2009), The previously renamed "Carver Center for Arts and Technology" would become known as "George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology". This breaks the general policy of BCoPS of not naming schools with the first names of people rather opting towards the previous example of using only last names such as in the example of Franklin High School (the County and BCoPS oldest public high school and a descendent of the historic old private Franklin Academy) in the Reisterstown area in the northwest Baltimore County or the current Carver Center. However, upon examination

text: with the school serving approximately 1,200 students. George Washington Carver High School began in September 1948 as a vocational school. Clarence M. Dannelly, then superintendent of Montgomery Public Schools, held the ground breaking ceremony on Fairview Avenue on April 13, 1948. The doors of the school were first opened on January 4, 1949. At that time there were 24 classrooms, an office suite, and a lunchroom which also served as an auditorium. There were 875 students and 23 faculty members including principal, M. H. Griffin, a graduate of the University of Michigan. This connection is why Carver High School adopted

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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. To recruit Carver to Tuskegee, Washington gave him an above average salary and two rooms for his personal use, although both concessions were resented by some other faculty. Because he had earned a master's in a scientific field from a "white" institution, some faculty

text: twice but neither have ever won. In 2004 Carver not only had the most visual art entrants in the national art competition 'ARTS', (which is a national art competition for high school seniors who excel at Dance, Film & Video, Jazz, Music, Theater, Photography, Visual Arts, Voice, and Writing) but had the most entrants from any one school in the U.S.A. In 2007, more Carver students received awards in the NFAA competition than in any other year. Although only twenty years old so far as an institution, the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology is already beginning to

title: George Washington Carver State Park

text: Bartow County’s growth and agricultural economy. In 1950, Atlanta resident and former Tuskegee Airman John Loyd Atkinson Sr. was instrumental in establishing George Washington Carver State Park (1950–1975), the state’s only park ever named for an African American. Atkinson had leased the adjacent to Red Top Mountain Park from the Corps of Engineers with the intention of establishing a private resort for Blacks, like American Beach, Florida. Governor Herman Talmadge helped establish the park and open it next to Red Top Mountain State Park, although operated and maintained separately. Atkinson became the park superintendent, the first African-American park manager in

title: George Washington Carver

text: some time in the early-mid 1860s. The exact date of his birth is uncertain and was not known to Carver – however it was before slavery was abolished in Missouri in January 1865 after the American Civil War. 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. When George was only a week old, he, a sister, and his mother were kidnapped by night raiders from Arkansas. George's brother, James, was rushed to safety from the kidnappers. The kidnappers sold the slaves

text: his name as the then "George Washington Carver High School". Therefore, his name is fitting to be continued on this High School, which is also dedicated to the arts and technology. The Carver Center employs block scheduling: periods are ninety minutes long, with four periods a day, and each class is held every other day. The third period is divided into three thirty-minute lunch periods. The shorter lunches are compensated by the longer classes. Together with five minutes between every class, this means that C.C.A.T.'s school day is slightly longer than that of the average high school. The longer class

text: of the history of the Carver Center, the Board made the decision to change and use the full name in honor of the school's history as a previously racially segregated school for (then known as the "Colored" high school, later "Negro"), young African Americans and to continue to recognize not only the famous American George Washington Carver, (1864-1943), himself who was a scientist, writer, and artist, but also the esteem he was held in by Baltimore County's then under-recognized black citizens who chose to name their first openly attended public high school available to them to entitle their school with

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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. At

title: Carver Military Academy

text: Carver Military Academy George Washington Carver Military Academy (formerly known as George Washington Carver Area High School) is a public 4–year military high school located in the Riverdale area on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Carver is named for African-American scientist and educator George Washington Carver. Carver opened in 1947. Carver was founded in 1947 as a neighborhood high school, when in 1999 Chaplain Lt. Colonel Antonio R. Daggett, Sr (Military Commandant) United States Army was called upon by Creg E. Williams (Chicago Public Schools Director), Paul Vallas (CEO of Chicago Public Schools) and Richard J.

title: George Washington Carver

text: teacher, Etta Budd, recognized Carver's talent for painting flowers and plants; she encouraged him to study botany at Iowa State Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) in Ames. When he began there in 1891, he was the first black student at Iowa State. Carver's Bachelor's thesis for a degree in Agriculture was "Plants as Modified by Man", dated 1894. Iowa State University professors Joseph Budd and Louis Pammel convinced Carver to continue there for his master'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

title: Moses Carver

text: Monument by an act of Congress in July 1943. The National Park Service maintains of the original farm. In 2004 the remaining 30 acres of the original Moses Carver Farm were donated to the George Washington Carver Birthplace District Association by Mrs. Evelyn Taylor and her late husband W.J. "Bud" Taylor. The Association later donated the land to the National Park Service, making the 240-acre Moses Carver Farm property complete. Moses Carver Moses Carver (1812–1910) was a German-American settler and slave owner of George Washington Carver. Moses Carver and his brother Richard migrated to southwest Missouri around 1838 from Ohio

title: George Washington Carver

text: friendship and research partnership with the scientist Austin W. Curtis, Jr. This young black man, a graduate of Cornell University, had some teaching experience before coming to Tuskegee. Carver bequeathed to Curtis his royalties from an authorized 1943 biography by Rackham Holt. After Carver died in 1943, Curtis was fired from Tuskegee Institute. He left Alabama and resettled in Detroit. There he manufactured and sold peanut-based personal care products. 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

text: ones. This resulted in equal pay at the high school as well. The name was changed to George Washington Carver High School in 1951, and for the first time it operated with equal funding with the white schools, and 12th grade was added. A new building was constructed with eight classrooms on the first floor, and large science and home economics labs on the second floor. The junior college, established the previous year, opened for classes in combination with the high school. This was the first post-high school opportunity for black children in Montgomery County, who were not allowed admission

title: George Washington Carver

text: an African American and the first to honor someone other than a president. The national monument complex includes a bust of Carver, a ¾-mile nature trail, a museum, the 1881 Moses Carver house, and the Carver cemetery. The national monument opened in 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

text: churches, Farmer Chapel C.M.E., First Baptist, and Holiness (Brick Sanctified). In 1922, the school was rebuilt, with financial assistance from the Rosenwald fund, and was renamed the Haywood County Training School. In addition to accommodating children, the school also helped returning war veterans complete their education. From 1916 to 1963, Professor Jeffries served as principal. Reflecting the agricultural focus of the school, he was known as "the agriculture man", and in 1936 became Haywood County's first "Negro Agricultural Extension Agent. In 1950, a new high school was built, and named George Washington Carver High School, with principal Roy Bond, who

title: John Harvey Kellogg

text: described Cuban women grinding peanuts and eating the paste on bread. In 1884, Marcellus Gilmore Edson (1849–1940) of Montreal, Canada obtained a patent for the "Manufacture of peanut-candy", combining 1 part of a "flavoring paste" made from roasted peanuts with 7 parts of sugar. By 1894, George A. Bayle of St. Louis was selling a "Cheese Nut" snack food containing peanuts and cheese; a peanut-only version was apparently more successful. George Washington Carver is often credited because of his scientific work with peanuts and promotion of their use. Carver and Kellogg corresponded in the 1920s and 30s about the use

text: serve the African-American Community. It was known for many years as the "Colored Branch." In 1947, the building was renamed the George Washington Carver Library in honor of the famous inventor and scientist. The library served African-Americans and others in the community until 1979, when a new, modern library building was completed next door. At that time work began to convert the building to a cultural center. The museum opened on October 24, 1980 and was expanded with a new facility in 2001. The original colonial revival style building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

title: George Washington Carver

text: 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. 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. Carver had been frugal in his life, and in his seventies he established a legacy by creating a

title: George Washington Carver

text: the age of 13, 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. Carver applied to several colleges before being accepted at Highland University 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

title: Carver Military Academy

text: in rank and a father of eight children, devoted himself to prayerfully securing community support, and ensuring that the new Military Academy remained for the community, by the community, and through the community. Carver competes in the Chicago Public League (CPL) and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Carver sport teams are nicknamed Challengers. Carver High School won the 1962-63 Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship after being the state runner-up the previous season. Carver Military Academy George Washington Carver Military Academy (formerly known as George Washington Carver Area High School) is a public 4–year military

title: George Carver (cricketer)

text: George Carver (cricketer) George James Carver (4 May 1879 – 1 October 1912) was an English cricketer. Carver's batting style is unknown, though it is known he was a fast-medium bowler, though which he arm he bowled with is also unknown. He was born at Thames Ditton, Surrey. Carver made a single first-class appearance for Surrey against Gloucestershire in the 1907 County Championship at the Ashley Down Ground, Bristol. Surrey won the toss and elected to bat, making 189 all out, with Carver scoring 36 runs before he was dismissed by Francis Roberts. Gloucestershire responded in their first-innings by making

title: Carver Theater (Washington, D.C.)

text: organization founded by Art Monk. In 2001, the city of Washington agreed to a 20-year lease with the organization. As of 2008, the building has undergone few renovations. Almost $1 million has been invested in the building through grants and donations. In 2004, the city sold the building to the foundation for $255,235 in the hope they would "restore and reoccupy Carver Theater." Carver Theater (Washington, D.C.) The Carver Theater is a former movie theater located in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C. in the United States. The building opened in 1948 and is of the Streamline Moderne style of