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Article: Scientist George Washington Carver Has First monument Created for a
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- February 15, 1995
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Leroy Vaughn
Los Angeles Sentinel
02-15-1995
Scientist George Washington Carver Has First Monument Created for a Black. Man
Born to a slave two weeks before the end of the Civil War, George Washington Carver rose to stunning heights as a scientist, educator and humanitarian.
The Diamond Grove plantation, where the man who would revolutionize American Agriculture spent his boyhood, became the George Washington Carver National Monument under an act of Congress in 1943, shortly after his death.
Then-Sen. Harry Truman of Missouri was a sponsor of legislation that created the first monument of its kind dedicated to an African American.
About 40,000 people a year visit the site in rural southwestern ...