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TIMELINE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER'S LIFE C. 1864 George is born in Diamond Grove, Missouri 1877 Begins formal schooling in Neosho, Missouri 1885 Is accepted to Highland College, but is denied admission when administrators there see that he is black 1886 Works as a homesteader in Ness County, Kansas, and begins performing agricultural experiments on the farm 1894 Graduates from Iowa State and joins the faculty there 1896 Earns a master's degree in agriculture from Iowa State and joins famed educator Booker T. Washington on the staff of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama 1906 Designs the Jesup Wagon for practical demonstrations to farmers 1916 Produces his bulletin "How to Grow the Peanut, and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption" Named a fellow for the London Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts 1921 Speaks to the US Congress House Ways and Means Committee about uses for the peanut 1923 Is awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for distinguished service to science

1928 Receives an honorary doctor of science degree from Simpson College 1935 Begins working with the US Department of Agriculture on the study of plant diseases 1940 Establishes the George Washington Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee 1943 Dies on January 5 in Tuskegee, Alabama

TIMELINE OF THE WORLD 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected the sixteenth president of the United States 1861 The American Civil War begins 1863 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation 1865 The American Civil War ends President Lincoln is assassinated 1879 Thomas Edison invents the first commercially practical incandescent lightbulb 1892 Ellis Island opens 1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays 1896 The Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision establishes the segregation doctrine of "separate but equal" 1903 The Wright brothers fly a plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina 1912 The ocean liner Titanic sinks on its first voyage 1914 World War I begins in Europe 1918 World War I ends 1919 A major flu epidemic, which began in 1918, kills between 30 and 50 million people around the world

1920 The Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote in the United States 1929 The New York stock market crashes 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president of the United States for the first of a record four terms 1941 The United States officially enters World War II after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii