Book
Carver: A Life in Poems
- Published
- 2001
- Genre
- Biography
- Publisher
- Front Street
- Pages
- 103
- Words
- 9377
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93598.Carver?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_23
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.9
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 890L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carver's achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher.
Collections
Beautiful Feet · MAW58 — Modern American and World History
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781886910539
- ISBN-10
- 1886910537
Tags
Beautiful FeetBiographyCarverHistoryScienceUnited States-MissouriUnited States of America