George Washington Carver Recognition Day

Today is George Washington Carver Recognition Day. George Washington Carver was an educator, an artist, a writer, and an inventor. He was well respected and well known in America during his lifetime. He discovered over three hundred uses of peanuts, and wrote a syndicated newspaper column called “Professor Carver’s Advice.”.

Time Magazine called him the “black Leonardo”, referring to the person who led to the coining of the term renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci. He was the first African American and the first non-president to have a United States National Monument established in his honor.