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_223
100 1 _aVella, Christina,
_d1952-
245 1 0 _aGeorge Washington Carver :
_ba life /
_cChristina Vella.
264 1 _aBaton Rouge :
_bLouisiana State University Press,
_c2015.
300 _ax, 422 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aSouthern biography series
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aCarver's George -- Drifting toward life -- A real human being -- Booker -- Dominion of poverty -- "Stand up for the stupid and crazy" -- Love and lynch mobs -- Wrestling with devils -- Bad days and worse -- The curtain lifts -- Trying to be serious -- A real chemist? -- Passion pure and simple -- Suffering humanity -- Fame and its discontents -- Miles to go -- A million thanks -- Epilogue -- Appendices: 1. Experiment Station Bulletins by George W. Carver; 2. Partial list of Carver's products from peanuts and sweet potatoes (compiled by Carver); 3. Dr. Joseph Kenney's letter to Booker T. Washington and the Executive Council concerning unsanitary conditions at Tuskegee, March 26, 1903.
600 1 0 _aCarver, George Washington,
_d1864?-1943.
650 0 _aAfrican American agriculturists
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAgriculturists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAfrican American scientists
_vBiography.
610 2 0 _aTuskegee Institute
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAgriculture
_xResearch
_zSouthern States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPeanuts
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
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