George Washington Carver was born in 1864 on that farm ... Just months after he died in 1943, the George Washington Carver National Monument was founded and in July 1953 when it was officially ...

Not long after George Carver was born, and following the end of the American civil war in 1865, slavery was outlawed. When he was an infant, George, his mother and sister were kidnapped by slave ...

Eighty years ago today — Jan. 5, 1943 — George Washington Carver died. Carver had a significant ... Many decades earlier, Carver, born a slave in 1864 in southwestern Missouri, had applied ...

George Washington Carver was born into slavery during the Civil War. He overcame countless obstacles in both getting his ...

George Washington Carver was born July 12, 1864, near Diamond, Mo., and died on Jan. 5, 1943 in Tuskegee, Ala. Carver's interest in science led him to the field of agricultural chemistry.

So who is George Washington Carver — the slave turned scientist? Like many former slaves, Carver’s exact birthday isn’t known, but historians agree that he was born sometime in the early 1860s.

A 1939 photo of George Washington Carver meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his visit to the Tuskegee Institute. (Getty Images) Carver died on Jan. 5, 1943. While the work of some ...