Carver, a Life in Poems
About this book
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. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carver's complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life.
Subjects
- african american agriculturists
- african americans
- afro-american agriculturalists-poetry
- agriculteurs noirs américains
- agriculturists
- american poetry
- american poetry (collections), 20th century
- auteurs noirs américains
- bildung
- biografie
- biographies
- children's poetry, american
- history
- jugendbuch
- newbery honor
- noirs américains
- poésie américaine
- poetry
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- sklaverei
- südstaaten
- waisenkind