CARBER history

After becoming the institute’s director of agricultural research in 1896, Carver devoted his time to research projects aimed at helping Southern agriculture, demonstrating ways in which farmers could improve their economic situation.

George Washington Carver standing in a field, probably at Tuskegee, holding a piece of soil, 1906.

In 1914, at a time when the boll weevil had almost ruined cotton growers, Carver revealed his experiments to the public, and increasing numbers of the South’s farmers began to turn to peanuts, sweet potatoes, and their derivatives for income.

In 1921, he went to D.C. on the association's behalf to lobby for a tariff on foreign peanuts.

In addition to the popular honor of being one of the most recognized names in African American history, Carver received the 1923 Spingarn Medal and was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Foreign governments requested his counsel on agricultural matters: Joseph Stalin, for example, in 1931 invited him to superintend cotton plantations in southern Russia and to make a tour of the Soviet Union, but Carver refused.

In 1940 Carver donated his life savings to the establishment of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee for continuing research in agriculture.

In 1942 the United States government allotted 2,023,428 hectares (5,000,000 acres) of peanuts to farmers.

The first recognized episodes of ‘smog’ occurred in Los Angeles in the summer of 1943.

In 1947, the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District – the first such body in the nation – was formed.

In 1966 California established the first tailpipe emissions standards in the nation.

On August 30, 1967, California's elected leaders came together to unify statewide efforts to address severe air pollution.

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