Page "George Washington Carver" Paragraph 15

In 1896, Booker T. Washington, the first principal and president of the Tuskegee Institute, invited Carver to head its Agriculture Department.

Carver taught there for 47 years, developing the department into a strong research center and working with two additional college presidents during his tenure.

He taught methods of crop rotation, introduced several alternative cash crops for farmers that would also improve the soil of areas heavily cultivated in cotton, initiated research into crop products ( chemurgy ), and taught generations of black students farming techniques for self-sufficiency.