The Peanut Nobody Wanted
In 1894, George Washington Carver arrived at Iowa State College as the only Black student on campus. Born into slavery, stolen as an infant, and...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24.
In 1894, George Washington Carver arrived at Iowa State College as the only Black student on campus. Born into slavery, stolen as an infant, and once turned away from Highland University the moment they saw his skin color, Carver knew rejection like a second language. The agricultural establishment dismissed him. Fellow scientists questioned his credentials. When he later moved to Tuskegee Institute to teach impoverished farmers in Alabama, colleagues at prestigious universities shook their heads.…
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