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What were George Washington Carver's agricultural discoveries?

African American researcher George Washington Carver (1860?–1943) is remembered as the person who popularized of the peanut, but he made other contributions to agriculture, as both an inventor and teacher. After earning a degree in agriculture from Iowa State College in 1891, Carver took a position at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which had been founded by Booker T. Washington (1856–1915). Tuskegee was one of the best-known colleges that offered teacher training and vocational education for African Americans, and Carver wanted to improve conditions for his fellow blacks. Although his laboratory was not so well equipped as those at other colleges, Carver devoted himself to improving agriculture through science. Believing that many southern farmers were poor because they depended too heavily on a single crop (cotton), Carver...

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