A native ofConnecticut,John Brownstruggled to support his large family and moved restlessly from state to state throughout his life, becoming a passionate opponent of slavery along the way. After assisting in the Underground Railroad out of Missouri and engaging in the bloody struggle between pro-...
March 11, 1941 - The George Washington Carver Museum is dedicated at the Tuskegee Institute with the participation of such luminaries as Henry Ford. The museum is now part of the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site. More March 11, 1941 - The Lend-Lease Act is approved, which provided ...
George Washington Carver is selected to head the agricultural research department at Tuskegee Institute. Carver's research advances the growth of soybean, peanut, and sweet potato farming. 1897 Arthur Alfonso Schomburg. Smith Collection / Gado/ Getty Images TheAmerican Negro Academyis founded in Washin...
1864 - George Washington Carver born near Diamond, Missouri1865 -January 11- Slavery abolished in Missouri by an ordinance of immediate emancipation, making Missouri the first slave state to emancipate its slaves before the adoption of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution April 10 - Missouri'...
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1858-1869: Aron of Kangeq (1822–1869), a Kalaallit sculptor and carver, paints over 300 watercolors about traditional lifeways in Greenland, later to be published in books 1860s: Depletion of buffalo and forced relocation onto reservations causes Plains Indians to shift from hide painting to...
1947 Portrait of George Washington Carver. © 2014 collection of Scattergood-Moore 2006, Dana Art Gallery exhibit. image Di Oisgebenkte Sho (The Longed-For Hour) 6 book illustrations 1947 Poems in Yiddish by David Seltzer; written in Hebrew 6 woodcut illustrations by Helen West (Vest) He...
1906 Knapp hired Thomas M. Campbell, an assistant of George Washington Carver at Tuskegee, to work with Negro farmers in the south. At the heart of his work was the organization of youth clubs among Negro boys and girls. 1907 By this time, the principle ingredients of 4-H work had been...
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