I did my one and only “Black History Month” report on George Washington Carver many, many years ago.
He was an amazing person.
I was told years late, by a friend who was pretty much a liberal with sanity that in many countries there are statues of Carver, because he contributed so much to people NOT STARVING TO DEATH, but here he’s overlooked, because he didn’t toe the racial grievance line.
Ditto for Booker T. Washington.
Seems odd to me that he is not as respected as he should be, when I was in school- 60s we were taught quite a bit about his contribution to agriculture and that was before there was such a thing as black history- it was just plain history.