Title: Carver, a Life in Poems
First published: 2001
Description: George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carver's achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carver's complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life.
Subjects: Agriculturists, Poetry, African American agriculturists, American poetry, History, Biographies, African Americans, Children's poetry, American, Noirs américains, Waisenkind, Biografie, Bildung, Sklaverei, Agriculteurs noirs américains, Jugendbuch, Auteurs noirs américains, Afro-American agriculturalists-Poetry, Südstaaten, Poésie américaine, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Newbery Honor, American poetry (collections), 20th century
Places: USA
People: George Washington Carver (1864?-1943), George Washington Carver (1860-1943), George W. Carver, Raymond Carver