This is the man that should be held up as an example for all of us. We have a building named after him at ISU but no one knows anything about him. Take time to read through his quotes, they are golden.
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_washington_carver.html
Wikipedia has sanitized info and of course, “suggests that Carver was bisexual and constrained by mores of his historic period.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver
This is better: http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Parks/Carver_Museum/Carver_Bio_and_Information.pdf
And the one that should be quoted often because of the times:
I will have to ask for help. can’t find it. The quote regarding those that wanted to make a living about race or as we know them, community developers.
Finally found when searching for race baiters:
https://texaslynn.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/booker-t-washington-vs-the-race-baiters-a-century-ago/
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
and
“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
Oddly enough, Carver Hall, named for GW Carver, is a math building. The more well-known Carver Lab is named for a different person named Carver.