Event
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL ON WHEELS (outdoors program)
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Fee:
Free.Repeating Event
Days:
Every day
Dates:
October 23, 2021 to October 24, 2021
Time:
1:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Talk
Description
In the early 1900s remote tenant farmers in southern Alabama had a hard time keeping up with farming techniques until the Agricultural School on Wheels came to town! Learn more about this innovative solution to rural farm education that George Washington Carver helped design.
Reservation or Registration: No
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NPS
Tags:
george washington carver national monument
tuskegee institute
african american experience
african american history and culture
black farmers
segregation
reconstruction
farming and agriculture
sharecropping
african american education
african american civil rights
jim crow era
jim crow laws
find your park
farm workers
rural communities