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Comment by Clifford Black on August 2, 2014 at 1:10pm

This is a very powerful thread and so I must say thank-you for your research.

B.

Comment by Adisa on August 1, 2014 at 11:57am

Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was the 33rd Vice President of the United States (1941–1945), the Secretary of Agriculture (1933–1940), and the Secretary of Commerce (1945–1946). In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.

 

May Wallace shared her love of plants with her son while he was still a boy, teaching him to cross-breed pansies.^[4] When the African-American "plant doctor" and future agronomist George Washington Carver became a student and later an instructor at Iowa State University, the Wallaces took him into their home, as racial prejudice prevented Carver from living in the dorm. As a boy, Wallace accompanied Carver on nature walks, identifying the botanical structures of wild flowers and prairie grasses. Carver left for Tuskegee when Wallace was eight, but his influence on Wallace was deep and lasting. By the age of ten, Wallace was experimenting with plant breeding in his own plot. He also developed a keen interest in math and statistics.

 

Wallace was raised as a Presbyterian and remained a devout Christian all his life. In college, however, he became increasingly dissatisfied with organized religion after reading William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). Around 1919 he stopped attending the Presbyterian church^[11] and spent the next ten years exploring other religious faiths and traditions, including spiritualism and esoteric religion. He later said, "I know I am often called a mystic, and in the years following my leaving the United Presbyterian Church I was probably a practical mystic ... I'd say I was a mystic in the sense that George Washington Carver was – who believed God was in everything and therefore, if you went to God, you could find the answers."^[12]

Comment by Clifford Black on December 20, 2011 at 12:30pm

Students that have been in my class-room who said that Carver was the peanut man would be asked to leave my room and do not come back until they have figured out why I am so upset!!!

B.

Comment by Adisa on December 20, 2011 at 11:53am

I was always told Mr. Carver was just a peanut farmer and because I was told by educators I believed it to be true.  I hope to not devert from the information by stating I understand why you stated to be careful how we listen.  As quicky as it is said, the trap is in the opening statement.  The opening statement reminds me of a word problem.  In math sometimes a word problem mentions things of no significance to devert some away from what the question is actually asking. 

Comment by Clifford Black on December 15, 2011 at 5:48pm

Most of this is important information---be careful with how you listen!!!

B.