George Washington Carver : : a Life
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Carver's George -- Drifting toward life -- A real human being -- Booker -- Dominion of poverty -- "Stand up for the stupid and crazy" -- Love and lynch mobs -- Wrestling with devils -- Bad days and worse -- The curtain lifts -- Trying to be serious -- A real chemist? -- Passion pure and simple -- Suffering humanity -- Fame and its discontents -- Miles to go -- A million thanks -- Epilogue -- Appendices: 1. Experiment Station Bulletins by George W. Carver; 2. Partial list of Carver's products from peanuts and sweet potatoes (compiled by Carver); 3. Dr. Joseph Kenney's letter to Booker T. Washington and the Executive Council concerning unsanitary conditions at Tuskegee, March 26, 1903.
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Southern biography series.
PUBLISHED
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015].
Year Published: 2015
Description: 422 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780807160749
0807160741
SUBJECTS
Carver, George Washington, -- 1864?-1943.
Tuskegee Institute -- History.
African American agriculturists -- Biography.
Agriculturists -- United States -- Biography.
African American scientists -- Biography.
Agriculture -- History. -- Southern States
Peanuts -- United States -- History.
Biographies.