George Washington Carver: More than Just the Peanut Man

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Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Radu Alexander
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris

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[ThatFanBoyGuy]

FUN FACT: While George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter, he did create his own recipe of it. He refused to patent it, however, because he felt like someone could do it better and improve on his methods. That's Carver's humility for you.

[sillybilly]

I went to Iowa State University, and they make it a point to teach every student there about George Washington Carver. Incredibly pleased to see he's finally getting the proper Biographics treatment!

[doublel]

For the late 18 hundreds adopting children of former Slaves was an outstanding move and very rare. Respect to the Carver family

[JKJ]

I remember doing a school report on him when I was 11 years old, and he has been a hero to me ever since. His work shows how the intersections of science and industry can be used to create systemic change to help both the causes of poverty and environmentalism. I truly wish more people understood this about him and what a humanitarian he was.

[macrokaiju]

in a book I read about him, he was also known to concoct paint in his lab and would, for free, use it to paint barns. One paint in partticualr he was known for was a vibrant blue paint, made from the red clay soil found in missouri. This man is an alchamist in my mind.

[todddougherty]

He wasn’t brilliant, he was a genius!!!! He knew crops and he knew the people he wanted to help. Sending a traveling school to help the less educated, either black or white, farmers is brilliant!!!!

[PDJ]

I'm an alumni of the high school he's named after: George Washington Carver Center for Arts & Technology. I'm so happy to see you do a video on him.

[ethanramos]

“When there is no vision, there is no hope”
George Washington Carver

[beautybarbybenee]

I graduated from Tuskegee and we have an entire museum dedicated to carver so excited about this video

[TheJoshua]

I'm from Alabama and lived in Enterprise, Alabama. The entire southeast Alabama wouldn't be affluent as it is without George Washington Carver. He even has a museum in Dothan, Alabama dedicated to him. He has murals in Banks like Wells Fargo down here. We even have an National Peanut Festival every year in Dothan bc of him. He's a treasure

[Sevenfeet]

George Washington Carver wasn't just an historical was a family friend. My grandmother knew him well since she graduated from Tuskegee Institute where he taught and her father taught at Tuskegee and both worked for Booker T Washington. I spent my childhood visiting the family house in Tuskegee and visiting the Carver Museum, still on the campus and run by the National Parks Service.

[karenknicely]

My husband was researching his family history, and found out that he was related to G.W. Carver!!

[Rekuzan]

He looked down into the brown dirt and saw color; colors so vivid & bright they would bring a tear to your eye.

[Scotfreee]

These videos are making my Social Distancing at home a little easier! I do Love Learning. Thanks!!!

[Beryllahawk]

I first learned about this amazing man back in grade school, because there was an entire special school dedicated to a specific sort of "field trip" - our class spent an entire day there, and it was the most fun day of school I can remember - and that's saying a lot since I adored school even at the worst of times. The notion of the school (I think) was to show other ways of teaching kids than "sit down, be quiet, memorize." Every single class was hands-on in some way or other. We learned about mirrors, then made our own kaleidoscopes - learned about English culture (a very small amount) and while the teacher talked we ate snacks inspired by or directly drawn from English recipes. That kind of stuff. And throughout all of it we kept hearing about how Carver wanted every person to do the best they could with what they had - a paraphrase of his motivations, perhaps, but a useful one. There was no failing any of the projects or classes, there was no sharp criticism of one's work, there was a consistent and pervasive attitude that promoted creative thinking and just...just generally made us kids feel like we COULD do any damned thing we felt like doing in life. That was a first for a lot of us. I feel like that special school was very much keeping alive what Carver would've wanted.

[drphosferrous]

The American Tesla. Dude was a humble genius. Most of his weird new material tech and medical innovations were aimed at encouraging more responsible farmig practices that would save poor sharecroppers and also U.S. food supply chains. Also, he could talk to plants. True story.

[GrizzlyLA]

George Washington Carver is one of my favorite historical figures. The man did so much for so many.

[familywilliams]

George Washington Carver has always been one of my heroes, ever since I was a very young child.

[davewise]

I knew Carver was a dynamic man, but had no idea he was so incredibly influential. Very informative, and it's good to see that adversity can be overcome even in the worst of times and situations. Amazing man. Now I want to know more about Booker T. Washington...

[silasbelcher]

I grew up and live in Joplin Missouri, which is neighboring Daimond MO. Very interesting to see our small town mentioned. I sell Real Estate in Missouri and Kansas, and the George Washington Carver national monument has been very formative for many in the area.