Carver, a Life in Poems

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George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carver's achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carver's complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life.

subjects: Agriculturists,  Poetry,  African American agriculturists,  American poetry,  History,  Biographies,  African Americans,  Children's poetry, American,  Noirs américains,  Waisenkind,  Biografie,  Bildung,  Sklaverei,  Agriculteurs noirs américains,  Jugendbuch,  Auteurs noirs américains,  Afro-American agriculturalists-Poetry,  Südstaaten,  Poésie américaine,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  Newbery Honor,  American poetry (collections), 20th century

People: George Washington Carver (1864?-1943),  George Washington Carver (1860-1943),  George W. Carver,  Raymond Carver

Places: USA