Carver, George Washington

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1. An African-American scientist and agricultural innovator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Carver aided the economy of the South by developing hundreds of industrial uses for crops such as the peanut and the sweet potato.

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Carver, who was born to slave parents, was the first black scientist to gain nationwide prominence.

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