George Washington Carver's 4 A.M. Appointment

Every morning at four o'clock, long before the Alabama sun touched the fields of Tuskegee Institute, George Washington Carver rose and walked into the woods. Born into slavery, his body had once been valued at three hundred dollars — the price of a racehorse. The world had told him his body belonged to someone else. But Carver knew better. He called those predawn walks his "appointment with the Creator."…