George Washington Carver

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER’S EDUCATION –  One day in 1878, Mariah Watkins found a fourteen year-old African-American boy sleeping in her wood pile.  She took him in and enrolled him in the local one room school house.  He did chores and studied until he felt he had learned all he could Read more…

One of America’s greatest scientists was born on Jan. 10, 1864.  Here are the notes I gave to my American History classes. born a slave raised by ex-slave owner after being orphaned graduated from college became director of agricultural research at Tuskegee University under Booker T. Washington developed many products Read more…