GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MEMORIAL: 'A Gentle Oasis of Singing Birds

From: Los Angeles Sentinel | Date: October 6, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Bryan Cotton
Los Angeles Sentinel
10-06-1994
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MEMORIAL: `A Gentle Oasis of Singing Birds and. Wildflowers'

Born to a slave two weeks before the end of the Civil War, George Washington Carver rose to stunning heights as a scientist, educator and humanitarian.

The Diamond Grove, (Mo.) plantation, where the man who would revolutionize America agriculture spent his boyhood, became the George Washington Carver National Monument under an act of Congress in 1943, shortly after his death. Then-Sen. Harry Truman of Missouri was a sponsor of legislation that created the first ...

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