The fifth day of the year is known as Carver Day, marking the death and honoring the legacy of George Washington Carver. To some, he’s just the guy who “invented” peanut butter.

In 1943 when Congress okayed the establishment of The George Washington Carver National Monument, it was a powerful tribute to George Washington Carver as a leading agricultural scientist ...

Installation view of "World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project," 2024–25, at California African American Museum, showing Carver's Prussian Blue (left) and Amanda Williams's Patent ...

By the 1900s, it was still difficult enough to produce that inventor George Washington Carver received a patent for his process. When artist Amanda Williams, LAB’92, stumbled across the obscure patent ...

The Carver Trail is a 1-mile self-guided trail that includes the birth site of George Washington Carver, the Boy Carver Statue, the 1881 Moses Carver House, and the graves of Moses and Susan Carver.

A 1939 photo of George Washington Carver meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his visit to the Tuskegee Institute. (Getty Images) RECOGNITION. Carver died on Jan. 5, 1943.