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#GeorgeWashingtonCarver, prominent Black scientist & inventor, best known for devising over 100 products using peanuts, soyabeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. Carver pioneered a mobile classroom, ‘School on Wheels’ bringing his lessons to Black farmers. #tuskegeeinstitute

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BlkHistStudies/status/1610931686954377221

Thinking about legacies and representations of peanuts, so I got myself a copy of “The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver” by Gene Barretta.

Y’all. It’s gorgeous. Frank Morrison’s #illustrations are wonderful. Definitely going to sit with this one for a bit.

#peanuts #GeorgeWashingtonCarver #SouthernStudies #AmericanStudies #VisualCulture #paintings #ChildrensLiterature #FoodStudies #art #histodons #history