GEORGE

WASHINGTON
CARVER
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with
the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

Carver was born into slavery in Diamond Grove

Carver obtained a $300 loan at the Bank of Ness City for education

Curtis was fired from Tuskegee Institute. He left Alabama and resettled in Detroit

George Washington Carver

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George Washington Carver was a prominent African-American
scientist and inventor. Carver is best known for the many uses he
devised for the peanut.
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Few famous Americans enjoy a status as mythic as that of George Washington Carver, a man whose life as a
botanist, agronomist, chemist and inventor earned him a lasting place in the history books
Personal life: Carver never married, but at age forty, he began a three-year courtship with Miss Sarah L. Hunt, an
elementary school teacher
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Carver seemed to enjoy his celebrity status. He was often to be found on the road promoting Tuskegee,
peanuts, and racial harmony.

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North wind Traders Newsletter
2015

Black history
On June 30th, 1973, Alberta Williams King was gunned down while she played the organ for the Lords
Prayer at Ebenezer Baptist Church. As a Christian civil rights activist, she was assassinated...just like her
son, Martin Luther King, Jr. But most people remember only one. Until a month ago, I was one of those
people.

Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington put himself through school and became a teacher. In 1881, he
founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama (now known as
Tuskegee University), which grew immensely and focused on training African Americans
in agricultural pursuits. A political adviser and writer, Washington clashed with
intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois over the best avenues for racial uplift.
After the Civil War, Booker and his mother moved to Malden, West Virginia, where she
married freedman Washington Ferguson. The family was very poor, and 9-year-old
Booker went to work in the nearby salt furnaces with his stepfather instead of going to
school. Booker's mother noticed his interest in learning and got him a book from which
he learned the alphabet and how to read and write basic words. Because he was still
working, he got up nearly every morning at 4 a.m. to practice and study. At about this
time, Booker took the first name of his stepfather as his last name, Washington.

Black history
Black History Month honors the contributions of African Americans to United States history. Did you know
that Madam CJ Walker was Americas first self-made woman to become a millionaire or that George
Washington Carver was able to derive nearly 300 products from peanuts? Get the story of the creation of
the NAACP, famous firsts in African American history and other black history facts

History
For Black History Month 2014, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
website celebrates 28 individuals. One for each day of February, the shortest

month of the year.

The lives of these Americans are worthy of celebration and further study, which
our short profiles hope to encourage. The women and men included are writers,
editors, journalists, publishers, trailblazers and change makers. They remind us
of the rich contributions African Americans make and have made in the world of
words.
This is by no means a definitive or exhaustive listing. Its a starting point for
learning, comment and discussion during Black History Month - February, 2014
when our nation pays a little more attention to issues of diversity. Be heard. Tell
us what you think and what we can learn!
Malcolm X, the activist and outspoken public voice of the Black Muslim faith, challenged the mainstream civil rights
movement and the nonviolent pursuit of integration championed by Martin Luther King Jr. He urged followers to
defend themselves against white aggression by any means necessary. Born Malcolm Little, he changed his last
name to X to signify his rejection of his slave name. Charismatic and eloquent, Malcolm became an influential
leader of the Nation of Islam, which combined Islam with black nationalism and sought to encourageand enfranchise
disadvantaged young blacks searching for confidence in segregated America. After Malcolm Xs death in 1965, his
bestselling book The Autobiography of Malcolm X popularized his ideas, particularly among black youth, and laid the
foundation for the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s.

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