TIMELINE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER’S LIFE

C. 1864 George is born in Diamond Grove, Missouri

1877 Begins formal schooling in Neosho, Missouri

1885 Is accepted to Highland College, but is denied admission when administrators there see that he is black

1886 Works as a homesteader in Ness County, Kansas, and begins performing agricultural experiments on the farm

1894 Graduates from Iowa State and joins the faculty there

1896 Earns a master’s degree in agriculture from Iowa State and joins famed educator Booker T. Washington on the staff of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama

1906 Designs the Jesup Wagon for practical demonstrations to farmers

1916 Produces his bulletin “How to Grow the Peanut, and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption”
Named a fellow for the London Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts

1921 Speaks to the US Congress House Ways and Means Committee about uses for the peanut

1923 Is awarded the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal for distinguished service to science

1928 Receives an honorary doctor of science degree from Simpson College

1935 Begins working with the US Department of Agriculture on the study of plant diseases

1940 Establishes the George Washington Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee

1943 Dies on January 5 in Tuskegee, Alabama