How Did George Washington Impact Society

When the name George Washington is mentioned, we think of the first president of the United States or maybe for the warrior he was and all the exciting things he did, but he is not the only George Washington to have left an impact on the American society. Many years down the line, another George Washington emerged known in Time magazine in 1941 as “black Leonardo”. Known as George Washington Carver, he was a man of many successes and did a lot in his lifetime and even battled the struggles of a black man in the 1900s Carver was an American agricultural chemist and agronomist and his experiments developed new products resulting from peanuts (groundnuts), sweet potatoes, and soybeans. Carver most importantly helped revolutionize the agricultural
“He ultimately developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them milk, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils, and cosmetics and 118 from sweet potatoes, including flour, vinegar, molasses, ink, a synthetic rubber, and postage stamp glue” (Editors of Britannica 4). George also went on to invent the Jessup wagon, to further help farmers. “When Carver arrived at Tuskegee in 1896, the peanut had not even been recognized as a crop, but within the next half century it became one of the six leading crops throughout the United States and, in the South, the second cash crop (after cotton) by 1940 “(Editors of Britannica 6). At this point in George’s life, his biggest success came from peanuts. Having said that, the efforts of George had finally helped liberate the South from its dependence on cotton. In Georges later years of life he was elected to Britain’s Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce in 1916 then later awarded by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for the Spingarn Medal in