in 1891, he was accepted at lowa Agricultural College. He was the only black student at the College, and as the usual he supported himself by doing small jops. He amazed everyone with his special work with plants. After he graduated, the college asked him to stay on as an instuctor because his work with plants and chemistry was so outstanding. So carver stayed on and taught, but he continued his research with plants while he was teaching.
One day he received a letter from Booker T" Washington, who was the most respected black educator in the country. Washington asked him to work at Tuskegee Institute, a black agricultural school in Alabama. Tuskegee was a poor black school that could not give Carver a laboratory or a high salary, but Carver decided to ho there.
In 1896, Carver started to teach and do research with plants at the Tuskegee Institute. He taught classes on agricuiture, and through his experiments ho found new ways to help the poor, struggling farmers of the South. Here, farmers had been growing cotton, which wore out the soil. He showed farmers how to plant different crops like peanuts to make the soil richer. After a while, farmers did what he said and were growing more and more peanuts. They were now making more money from peanuts than from cotton.
Carver developed many uses for the peanut. In fact, he found more than 300 uses for the peanut, and he became known as the "peanut man." He recelved many prizes and awards for hit work. He gave lectures about the uses of peanuts all over the United States and even spoke to Congress about peanuts in 1921. Meanwhile, Carver began to experiment with the sweet potato and discovered more than 100 products that could be made from it, including glue for postage stamps.
By the 1930s, Carver had become famous all over the country and the world. He visited the Prince of Sweden and the Britsh 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.