Question

Which Tuskegee Institute scientist encouraged southern farmers to stop planting cotton and tobacco (which wore out the soil) and focus on peanuts and sweet potatoes?

Answer 1

That would be George Washington Carver. Carver is a very famous person. He was a slave, who worked hard to gain his education. He succeeded and became a scientist and a lecturer at the Tuskegee Institute. Carver was instrumental in introducing new ways for Southern farmers to utilize the peanut. He devised many uses for this crop including dyes and gasoline.