Distinguished Gentlemen | 1902
George Washington Carver (front row, center) poses with fellow faculty of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, AL, 1902. Photograph taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
George Washington Carver was a world-famous chemist who made important agricultural discoveries and inventions. His research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops and improve their diets. A monument showing Carver as a boy was the first national memorial erected in honor of an African American.
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