The Peanut Farmer Nobody Thought Worth Teaching
In 1885, a young Black man named George Washington Carver applied to Highland College in Kansas. He was accepted by mail, but when he arrived...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 1:43-51.
In 1885, a young Black man named George Washington Carver applied to Highland College in Kansas. He was accepted by mail, but when he arrived on campus and the administrators saw the color of his skin, they turned him away at the door. Can anything good come from the child of slaves? For years, Carver wandered — farming, doing laundry, scraping by.…
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