George Washington Carver Timeline
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1864- George Washington Carver is born a slave in Missouri, and he is kidnapped by men.

 

1871- George begins keeping his own garden and is known as the “Plant Doctor”.

 

1877- George moves to a new city and leaves his family so he can attend school offered to Negroes.  He earned money by doing other people’s laundry and cleaning their houses.

 

1890- Carver enrolls at Simpson College and opens a laundry mat to earn money.  He thought about becoming an artist.

 

1894- Carver earns his Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture at Iowa Agricultural College.

 

1896- Carver is asked by Booker T. Washington to be a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

 

1906- George bgins teaching rural people about using different crops each year to make the soil better.  He said that sweet potatoes and peanuts were good plants to grow.

 

1913- Carver offers his first Sunday Evening Bible classes at the request of his students.

 

1916- George is named the Fellow of Royal Society for the Arts for his contribution of agricultural research.

 

1923- George received the Springarm Medal for Distinguished Service to Science.

 

1939- George received the Roosevelt Medal for Distinguished Service to Science.

 

1941- The George Washington Carver Museum is opened at the Tuskegee Institute.

 

1943- George Washing Carver died at the age of 78.