By the 1930s, Carver had become famous all over the country and
the world. He visited the Prince of Sweden and the British Prince of
Wales. Thomas Edison asked Carver to work for him at a salary of more
than $100,000 a year. The car manufacturer Henry Ford also made him
a generous offer. But Carver was not interested in money; he stayed on
at the Tuskegee Institute with a monthly salary of $ 125.
In 1940, he gave all his life savings of $33,000 to the George
Washington Carver Foundation to provide opportunities for African
Americans to study in his field, because for Carver, “Education is the
key to unlock the golden door of freedom. . . ." Carver died in 1943.