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More Than Peanuts - The Unlikely Partnership of Tom Huston and George Washington Carver (Paperback)
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More Than Peanuts - The Unlikely Partnership of Tom Huston and George Washington Carver (Paperback)
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The further we go the bigger it gets and the more interesting. I
don't know what we would have done without you." So wrote Bob
Barry, a White executive with the Tom Huston Peanut Company, to
George Washington Carver, the shy, unassuming scientific genius of
Tuskegee Institute. The two, along with Grady Porter and Tom Huston
himself, embarked on a quest to grow the peanut industry in the
South by understanding and solving the problems faced by farmers.
From 1924 until the end of Carver's life, these four men, three
White and one Black, sustained a professional partnership and a
personal friendship built on mutual admiration, respect, trust, and
purpose. Their work attracted the attention and support of
university and government scientists around the country as well as
agricultural industry professionals and their most important
audience, farmers in the Southeast. Their effort laid the
foundation for research to support the fledgling peanut industry,
which became one of the region's most important cash crops, with a
farm value totaling over $1 billion in 2020. More Than Peanuts
follows the journey of these four men, through the letters they
wrote to each other and to others who joined them on the way. The
letters document a fascinating early example of cooperation between
farmers, private business, university researchers, and government
policymakers to grow a prosperous industry. Even more importantly,
they are eloquent testimony to a lasting interracial friendship in
the segregated South-so much more than peanuts.
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