George Washington Carver

This biography includes 5.6 hours of audio arranged in 24 chapters, each 14 minutes long.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (1846?-1943) a distinguished agricutural chemist and experimenter, Carver became a public benefactor of the entire American South and a black hero of popular history whose name has been appproriated by almost as many black schools, lodges, clubs, movie theatres, banks, and insurance companies as that of the famous educator Booker T. Washington. Adjusting himself to what he considered a transient racial situation in the South, Carver attempted to prepare rural Negroes for full citizenship rights by teaching them how to become skilled farmers and useful citizens. He dedicated his life to making Tuskgee Institute, Tuskgee, Alabama, an instrument of ministry to the needs of these people, and, in the process, he became an outstanding teacher, artist, and humanitarian.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Miller, Basil. George Washington Carver: God's Ebony Scientist. Zondervan, 1943. Albus, Harry james. The Peanut Man: THe Life of George Washington Carver in Story Form. Eerman's, 1948. Pullen, A.M. Despite the Colour Bar: The Story of George Washington Carver-Scientist. SCM Press, 1946.