lif.htm)He was one of the few black people of the era to go to good colleges. In 1890, when he was about 26 years old, he enrolled in Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa to study music and art. His art instructor, Etta Budd, son of the head of the Department of Horticulture at Iowa State College, convinced him to go into scientific agriculture instead of art. He then went to Ames in 1891 and became active in the YMCA, Welch Eclectic Society, and college military regiment. He got his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Agriculture in 1894 and 1896. He was the first black to enroll as a student at Iowa State, and also the first one to join the faculty.(http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/21-7-2.htm)George Washington Carver had a variety of jobs during his lifetime. In 1985, he was the assistant botanist in the Experimental Station. He worked there until the following year, when Booker T. Washington asked him to go to Alabama to join the staff of Tuskegee Institute. He organized the Agricultural Department there and planned the agricultural building. He also conducted research and taught classes in chemistry and botany. He was the Director of Agriculture, Head of the Department of Research, and the first Director of the Agricultural Research and Experimental Station.(http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/21-7-2.htm)His work led to the creation of many products from peanuts and over 100 products from sweet potatoes. He also developed many products for Alabama clay, cotton, soybeans, pecans, wood shavings, and waste materials. His hundreds of peanut products are what got him his nickname of the “Peanut Man.” His peanut products included: Evaporated Peanut Beverage, Normal Peanut Beverage, Peanut Lemon Punch, Peanut Koumiss Beverage, Peanut Orange Punch, Peanut Punch, Hair and Scalp Peanut Oil Shampoo, Hen Food for Laying (Peanut Hearts), Peanut Hay Meal, Peanut Hull Bran, Peanut Hull Stock Food, Peanut Meal, Pea...
