A week after George was born he was kidnapped along with his sister and mother by raiders from Arkansas. Eventually George was located by an agent sent by Moses Carver and brought back to Missouri. In the end of the Civil War in 1865 brought an end to slavery. At the end of the war Moses Carver and his wife decided to keep George and his brother at their house. They kept them at there house because no schools would …show more content…
He ended up being the first black student in Iowa state. He did so good in his studies that he got a bachelor of science degree. Then Joseph Budd and Louis Pammel persuaded him to stay,so he could get his master degree. After he graduated he decided to go and teach at an African American Tuskegee institute. When he was at the school he was in charge of the agricultural class in 1896. George's special status got him two room of campus.
Tuskegee's school got a lot better with George's leadership for them. George helped a lot of the local farmers with their crop growing. With George helping all these people, it helped the in a way to because it helped them stabilize the livelihood of the people who had past unlike George’s. Because George was such a great teacher he made a mobile class so that he could teach and bring his plans to farmers at the same time. The classroom was none as Jesup wagon and named after Morris Ketchum Jesup.
George's work at Tuskegee had great work which brought him to national prominence. Many of the experiments he did were based on creating new crops, for example peanuts, …show more content…
When he was young he was none as the young plant doctor. After that the congress nicknamed him the peanut man. Even though he made a bunch of stuff he never ended up writing anything down on paper.
He considered weeds “nature's vegetables”.George cared about people more than he cared about money. George studied piano at the simpson college, so plants and peanuts were not the only things he studied, he also studied art at simpson college. Moses Carver his owner purchased him and his parents for 700 dollars.
George had too move away from his home because the schools in his area were not African American schools. George wrote and published two reports they were called how to grow a peanut and 105 ways of preparing it for human consumption. Georges artwork was shown at the 1893 world fair. George was the first African American to have a national park named after him. George found many uses for sweet potatoes and soybeans.
Moses Carver and his wife treated George and his brother like they were family teaching the how to read and right. George applied at Highland college but was rejected because of his race. The indian leader Mahatma Gandhi wanted Georges help with