George Washington Carver's Impact On Crops And Crop Production

George Washington Carver was a well known scientist who made an impact on crops and crop production. George was born a slave in Diamond, Missouri on the farm of his parents' slave owners, Moses and Susan Carver. His birth date was unknown but had said to be somewhere around January 1864. Both of his parents were slaves, their owners purchased his mother, Mary at the age of 13, George’s father was killed from a farming accident. He had a brother named James, who died at an early age and several sisters. When George was only a week old him, his mother, and his sisters were kidnapped by Confederate raiders and were sold in Kentucky. Only George was found and rescued. Having no other family or anywhere to go his parents owners took him in and treated …show more content…
He also managed to come up with 118 products from the sweet potato, such as flour, shoe polish, and candy. And even more products using pecans. From then on George became a well known as a leading agricultural scientist. The older George got the more he started noticing that other African Americans weren’t getting a good education because of them being a slave and not having as much as a education advantage as George did, so he did the best he could to help open an institute in his name to give opportunities for advanced study for African Americans. Along with the institute collecting money for it to open, George received lots of awards for his education and for his products in his years. In 1916 he was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of London, in 1923, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) awarded him the Spingarn Medal for his service in agriculture chemistry. In 1939, he recieved the Theodore Roosevelt Medal for his contribution to science. And in 1951, finally, the George Washington Carver National Monument was built on 210 acres of the farmland owned by Moses and Susan Carver, where George was