EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -For most of his career he taught and conducted research at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Tuskegee, Alabama. Carver was born into slavery, the son of an enslaved woman named Mary, owned by Moses Carver .

Detailed explanation-2: -Carver was put in charge of the new agriculture department at Tuskegee. He taught African American students at the school as well as poor black farmers outside the school. Eventually, he also was responsible for an agricultural research program, two school farms, and a variety of other tasks.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S. While a professor at Tuskegee Institute, Carver developed techniques to improve types of soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton. He wanted poor farmers to grow other crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, as a source of their own food and to improve their quality of life.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1896, Booker T. Washington needed someone to teach agriculture at Tuskegee. George Washington Carver was just finishing his master’s degree in agriculture science at Iowa State. Washington offered Carver the job.

Detailed explanation-5: -On October 8, 1896 Carver would join Tuskegee Institute’s staff as the Director of Agriculture.