Soon after George Washington Carver's death in 1943, Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt made his boyhood home a national monument, the first to honor an African American.
Carver and Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
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