George Washington Carver is known for creating 105 popular recipes using peanuts, and for discovering more than a hundred useful products that could also be made from peanuts. He also studied the uses of cotton and sweet potatoes.
Some of the materials he created were cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics, gasoline, and even nitroglycerin (for dynamite).
In addition to his agricultural and chemistry contributions, Carver was an avid proponent of African-American rights, and received the Springarn Medal in 1923 from the NAACP.
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