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George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was born on July 12, 1864. He was born into slavery in Newton County, near Diamond Grove, now known as Diamond, Missouri. When George was a baby, he, a sister, and his mother were kidnapped by night raiders and sold in Arkansas. His owner, Moses Carver purchased George's mother, Mary, from William P. McGinnis for seven hundred dollars. In 1887, he was accepted into Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa as its second African-American student. While in college at Simpson, he showed a strong aptitude for singing and art. His art teacher, Etta Budd, was the daughter of the head of the department of horticulture at Iowa State. Etta convinced Carver to pursue a career that paid better than art and so he transferred to Iowa State. He transferred in 1891 to Iowa State Agricultural College, where he was the first black student, and later the first black faculty member. George Washington Carver, was an American botanical researcher and agronomy educator who worked in agricultural extension at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, teaching former slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency. Carver's most important accomplishments were in areas other than industrial products from peanuts, including agricultural extension education, improvement of racial relations, mentoring children, poetry, painting, religion, advocacy of sustainable agriculture and appreciation of plants and nature. Much of Carver's fame was based on his research and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops as both a source of their own food and a cash crop. His most popular bulletin contained 105 existing food recipes that used peanuts. His most famous method of promoting the peanut involved his creation of about 100 existing industrial products from peanuts, including cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics, gasoline and nitroglycerin. His industrial products from peanuts excited the public imagination but none was a successful commercial product.