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African American people were not allowed to attend the public school in Diamond Missouri. After Moses died and George was freed, George decided to go to a school for black children 0 miles south in Neosho. When he reached the town he found the school closed for the night, so he slept in a nearby inn. The next morning he met a kind woman named Maria Watkins, who owned the inn in which hed rented a room from the night before. When Washington was paying her, she asked him what his name was, he replied Carver’s George, a slave’s name, as he had done his whole life. She replied from that point on that he was George Carver. When he was 3, because of his ambition to be educated there, he relocated to Fort Scott Kansas. After witnessing several black men killed by the Klu Klux Klan, Carver left out of fear. He attended a series of schools with a migration of other African American people heading west before earning his diploma at Minneapolis High School. Carver applied to different colleges before being accepted at Highlands University and Highland Kansas. When he arrived, however, they rejected him because he was black. After giving up on his dream to go to Highland University, he started working at

a farm getting paid in lodging and food.
A couple of years later he applied at Iowa State University and was the first African American to be accepted. He was the first person to be black there, including the staff. Joshua Bud and Louis Pannell convinced Carver to continue there for his master’s degree even though he was receiving poor treatment from his classmates, teachers, and co-workers. Carver received a master’s degree in botany in 896. After, at the reception party, Booker T Washington invited Carver to work at his school, now renamed Tuskegee University. Carver taught there for 47 years developing the Botany Department. During this time he introduced crop rotation, introduced several alternative cash crops instead of cotton, and started research into crop productions. During the last 20 years of his life, Carver enjoyed his celebrity status. He often promoted peanuts, Racial harmony, and his old-school Tuskegee University. He published a total of 47 agricultural bulletins for farmers all over America. One of his most famous was called Professor Carver’s Advise. Agricultural Business Leaders came out and sought his advice. He was also famous for thinking peanuts were a cure for polio.