How George Washington Carver Changed The World

One person’s ideas won’t change the world but it can make a significant impact. George Washington Carver overcame slavery but his ideas about crops and peanuts clearly improved life for many people. George Washington Carver is best known for his agricultural experimentation especially on the uses of the peanut but his life and research led to a better life for many. His legacy is that regardless of your race you can achieve great things if you preserve.
George Washington Carver was born in 1864 and it was a time that was very different from today. Carver was born a slave in the state of Missouri. George Washington Carver was a great chemist among many other talents, but his early life was very difficult.His parents were Mary and Giles who were slaves on a farm in Kansas territory and his father

Ironically he was than raised by white guardians who he called Aunt Sue and Uncle Mose and proved to be an excellent help to them. Due to his small physical built he did many chores usually done by women such as cooking , cleaning and even crocheting while his brother, James who helped Uncle Mose on the farm.t.Due to the racism of this time period George was not able to attend the white school in Missouri. He had to educate himself from any books he could attain. After George moved to Kansas he attended a school for black children far from home in Neosho which was a much larger town.. His first teacher was African American, who inspired Carver to keep trying to improve himself. George very early in life loved plants and had an amazing knowledge of plants. After an incident where he saved an apple tree he began to be called the plant doctor..”Even though the kids started teasing him about being the plant doctor he was often summoned to a neighbor’s farm.”(40- ) In his spare time Carver soon began painting the plants he saw and even started his own garden.He used the plants to make his own”paint”! He began to ask himself the