A boy,
who was discriminated for being born as a black, never discriminated one
color from the other when he became an artist to be nicknamed as ’Black
Leonardo‘. Born as a slave, Carver carved a niche for himself as one of the
Greatest African Americans. All the humiliations he faced instilled in him
the humility that kept him grounded when he reached great heights. He
invented and discovered things with a paternal spirit instead of getting
patent rights which would have made him a million dollar man. But Carver
dedicated his life to the research and promotion of alternative crops to
cotton, such as peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes, which also aided
nutrition for farm families. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops
both as a source of their own food and as a source of other products to
improve their quality of life. Carver’s presence is felt even today in the
essence of 536 different dyes he
invented, in the 300 odd products he derived from a single crop-peanut and
the list is endless. Do you want to leave your footprints in the history
books for your descendants to follow? For Example: LikeGW Carver”? |