Full Name: George Washington Carver

Birth Date & Place: Born a slave in 1864
Diamond Grove, Missouri

Schooling: Lincoln School for Colored Children, Neosho, Missouri;
Minneapolis High School, Kansas;
Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa;
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Lived: Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Alabama

Death: January 5, 1943

He was an African American, who studied science and plants.

He was hired by Booker T. Washington as a teacher at Tuskegee Institute.

He developed hundreds of uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans.

He developed crop-rotation and helped the economic development of the South.

He was known as the "Wizard of Tuskegee."

He did not patent many of his products but allowed people to use them freely.

He always wore a fresh flower in his lapel.

He is buried at Tuskegee beside his friend Booker T. Washington.

"No individual has any right to come into this world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it."

"One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living."

"It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success."

"The thoughtful educator realizes that a very large part of the child's education must be gotten outside of the four walls designated as classroom."

Front: Profiles of George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington are in the center of the coin

Back: A map of the United States and the text "Freedom and Opportunity for All-Americanism"

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