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George Washington Carver, black Leonardo
    2016-June-21  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    We have talked about Booker T. Washington, founding president of the Tuskegee Institute, a school created in Alabama shortly after the end of slavery for the education of black Americans.

    One of that school's most illustrious professors was George Washington Carver (1860s-1943). Like Booker T. Washington, he was born a slave, which accounts for the uncertainty about his birth date.

    His owner's name was Moses Carver, and he was given the name George. It seems the Carvers were kind enough. When slavery was abolished, they gave George and his brother a basic education and encouraged George to continue learning. The boys' mother had previously been kidnapped by slave traders, so they were essentially orphans.

    When he set off on his own to attend school, he met a woman named Mariah Watkins. He introduced himself as "Carver's George," but Ms Watkins instructed him to call himself "George Carver." She also told him, "You must learn all you can, then go back out into the world and give your learning back to the people."

    And so he did. After living as a homesteader, he took his education at Iowa State Agricultural College--the first black student to enroll--and studied all the way through a master's degree in botany.

    He also became the first black faculty member at Iowa State. Later he was called by Booker T. Washington to teach at Tuskegee, where he remained for 47 years.

    One focus of his research was the development and promotion of crops other than cotton, a staple crop in the South. Two of these were sweet potatoes and peanuts, this latter being the one most associated with Carver's work. The purpose of this work was two-fold: to provide small farmers with a marketable crop, and to help them feed their families with more nutritional foods. To this end, he devised and spread recipes using these crops. One of his publications featured 105 recipes containing peanuts!

    So enthusiastic was he in this work that in 1941, two years before his death around age 78, "Time Magazine" dubbed him the "black Leonardo" (referring to Leonardo da Vinci).

    Vocabulary: Which word above means:

    1. children whose parents have died

    2. one who obtains land by working on it

    3. famous

    4. named, titled

    5. one who created or started something

    6. inability to be sure

    7. providing proper food values

    8. having two parts

    9. the study of plants

    10. the main product of an area

    ANSWERS: 1. orphans 2. homesteader 3. illustrious 4. dubbed 5. founding6. uncertainty 7. nutritional 8. two-fold 9. botany 10. staple

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