George Washington Carver was born in 1860. Born of slave parents in Diamond Grove, Missouri, Carver was rescued from Confederate kidnappers as an infant.

At Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for Negroes, Carver invented ways to help farmers harvest healthy crops. Crops can be plants like vegetables, fruit, or grain or fiber like cotton. Carver created the crop rotation method for cotton farmers. Cotton took a lot of the nutrients from the soil. By planting peanuts every other year, this made the soil better, adding more nutrients for the next round of crops.

Carver created 325 different uses for the peanut. Some uses range from cooking oil to printers ink. Carver died January 5, 1943. His birthplace was declared a national monument in 1953.

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