George Washington Carver

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George Washington Carver
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When and Where was he born

• He was born on July 12, 1864 in Diamond Grove,
  Missouri. George was born right after slavery
  was abolished.

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Early Life

• In 1874 he left the farm where he was born
  and eventually settled in Minneapolis, Kansas. He
  had to move because there were no schools for
  blacks. He said good-bye to his adopted parents,
  Susan and Moses Carter. He went to Minneapolis
  High School in Kansas.

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Achievements

• His fame was based on his research of crops
  to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. He
  was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of
  Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce of Britain in
  1916. George Washington Carver created over 100
  products made from peanuts that were useful for
  the house and farm, including cosmetics, dyes,
  paints, plastics, gasoline, and nitroglycerin.

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Interesting Facts About George Washington Carver

• George Washington Carver was an American
  scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor whose
  studies and teaching revolutionized agriculture
  in the Southern United States.
• The most popular of his 44 bulletins farmers
  contained 105 food recipes that used peanuts.

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When He Died

• George Washington Carver died on January 5, 1943.
  He was 79 years old when he died.

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The Creators

• Braxton Turner and Courtney Pye

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Mae Jemison
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When she was born.

• She was born October 17,1956 in Decatur, Alabama.
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Facts about her early life

• She was a maintenance supervisor for a charity
  organization.
• She graduated from Chicagos Morgan Park High
  school.
• During high school she auditioned for the leading
  role of Maria in a play called the West Side
  Story, and got the part of playing Maria.

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Her achievements

• She got the Kirby Science Award in 1993.
• She got the Turner Trumpet Award in 1993.
• She was in the National Woman's Hall of Fame in
  1993.
• In 1988 she got the Teacher Award.
• In 1993 she was in the Peoples magazines 50
  most beautiful people in the world.
• Also in 2004 she was in the international space
  hall of fame.

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Interesting Facts

• She traveled to the moon.
• Time in space 190 hr. 30 min. and 30 sec.
• She was in the TVs series show Star Trek.
• She was also very talented at acting and,
  traveling in space ships.

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Thurgood Marshall
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When he was born

• He was born July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Early Life

• His father William Marshall, instilled in him
  from youth an appreciation for the United States
  Constitution.
• After he graduated Fredrick Douglas High School
  in Baltimore,Thurgood Marshall went to an all
  male school at Lincoln University in Oxford,
  Pennsylvania. Among his many fellow classmates
  was the already renowned poet, Langston Hughes.

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Interesting Facts

• It was Marshall who won the most important legal
  case of the century, Brown v. Board of Education,
  ending the legal segregation of black and white
  children in public schools. Marshall was the
  nations first African American Supreme Court
  Justice. He promoted affirmative action
  preferences, set asides and other race conscious
  policies. This was his remedy for the damage
  remaining from the nations history of slavery
  and racial bias.

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What are his achievements?

• He was accepted at Howard University Law School.
  He led a civil rights revolution in the 20th
  century that for ever changed the landscape of
  American society. But he is the least well known
  of the three leading black figures of this
  century. It was Marshall who ended segregation
  in the United States. He won court victories,
  breaking the color line in housing,
  transportation, and voting, all of which
  overturned the (Separate-but-Equal) apartheid of
  American life in the first half of the century.

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When did he die?

• Thurgood Marshall died on January 24th 1993.
  After Marshall died there was still no
  authoritative, thorough account of his life and
  the impact of his work had on the nation.

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By Matthew Bushey, Jannell Benderman