George Washington Carver

Author : Gary R. Kremer
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826260896
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Washington Carver written by Gary R. Kremer and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington Carver (1864-1943), best known for his work as a scientist and a botanist, was an anomaly in his own time—a black man praised by white America. This selection of his letters and other writings reveals both the human side of Carver and the forces that shaped his creative genius. They show us a Carver who was both manipulated and manipulative who had inner tensions and anxieties. But perhaps more than anything else, these letters allow us to see Carver's deep love for his fellow man, whether manifested in his efforts to treat polio victims in the 1930s or in his incredibly intense and emotionally charged friendships that lasted a lifetime. The editor has furnished commentary between letters to set them in context.

Author : William J. Federer
Publisher : Amerisearch, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780965355766
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Washington Carver written by William J. Federer and published by Amerisearch, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federer discusses how the evolution of the American tolerance for various religious beliefs evolved into intolerance of traditional Judeo-Christian belief.

Author : Christina Vella
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080716075X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Washington Carver written by Christina Vella and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina Vella received a PhD. in Modern European and U.S. history from Tulane University, where she is a Visiting Professor. A consultant for the U.S. State Department, she lectures widely on historical and biographical topics.

Author : Jim Gigliotti
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399539735
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Was George Washington Carver? written by Jim Gigliotti and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) and developed techniques to grow crops better. His work with vegetables, especially peanuts, made him famous and changed agriculture forever. He went on to develop nearly 100 household products and over 100 recipes using peanuts.

Author : John Perry
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1595554041
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Washington Carver written by John Perry and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminate our shared experience. A generation of 20th-century Americans knew him as a gentle, stoop-shouldered old black man who loved plants and discovered more than a hundred uses for the humble peanut. George Washington Carver goes beyond the public image to chronicle the adventures of one of history's most inspiring and remarkable men. George Washington Carver was born a slave. After his mother was kidnapped during the Civil War, his former owners raised him as their own child. He was the first black graduate of Iowa State, and turned down a salary from Thomas Edison higher than the U.S. President to stay at the struggling Tuskegee Institute, where he taught and encouraged poor black students for nearly half a century. Carver was an award-winning painter and acclaimed botanist who saw God the Creator in all of nature. The more he learned about the world, the more convinced he was that everything in it was a gift from the Almighty, that all people were equal in His sight, and that the way to gain respect from his fellow man was not to demand it, but to earn it.

Author : Elizabeth MacLeod
Publisher : Kids Can Press
ISBN 13 : 9781553379072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Washington Carver written by Elizabeth MacLeod and published by Kids Can Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title in the Snapshots: Images of People and Places in History series introduces readers to the scientist, inventor and professor who became a symbol of African American success and interracial harmony. George Washington Carver was the orphan son of slaves, but he went on to become the world-famous ?Peanut Scientist.? George invented more than 325 products from peanuts --- including gasoline, shampoo, ice cream and chili sauce. Even when George was a child he was known as the ?Plant Doctor? because he could make almost any plant grow. It was through his groundbreaking research in agriculture that George radically improved the lives of countless African American farmers in the southern United States.

Author : Lori Mortensen
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1404837256
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Washington Carver written by Lori Mortensen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of George Washington Carver, famous for finding over three hundred uses for peanuts.

Author : Linda O. McMurry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195032055
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Washington Carver written by Linda O. McMurry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She also sets out how these roles served both whites and blacks; reminds the reader of Carver's personal and circumstantial reasons for not demurring; and reaffirms, in particular, his impact on individuals (prominent among whom was Southern radical Howard Kester--viz. Anthony Dunbar's Against the Grain, above). An intellectually satisfying study and no less an affecting biography.

Author : Andy Carter
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575054278
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Washington Carver written by Andy Carter and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of the African-American agriculturist at the Tuskegee Institute, emphasizing his love of plants and his belief in living in harmony with the natural world.

Author : Susan Grigsby
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807594334
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Garden with Dr. Carver written by Susan Grigsby and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2011 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2012-2013 Children's Crown Gallery Nominee 2011 Growing Good Kids—Excellence in Children's Literature Award Dr. Carver knew everything in nature was connected. Sally is a young girl living in rural Alabama in the early 1900s, a time when people were struggling to grow food in soil that had been depleted by years of cotton production. One day, Dr. George Washington Carver shows up to help the grown-ups with their farms and the children with their school garden. He teaches them how to restore the soil and respect the balance of nature. He even prepares a delicious lunch made of plants, including "chicken" made from peanuts. And Sally never forgets the lessons this wise man leaves in her heart and mind. Susan Grigsby's warm story shines new light on a Black scientist who was ahead of his time.