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1. George Washington Carver National Monument
   George Washington Carver National Monument was one of the first national park sites to highlight the life and work of a black American. The site preserves the farm where Carver grew up and includes a museum with displays and films about Carver's boyhood.
2. George Washington Carver National Monument -- Mother
   George Washington Carver was born in Missouri on the Moses Carver plantation. His parents were slaves. His father died right before George was born, then while he was still a baby, slave traders kidnapped him and his mother. Only George was returned to the plantation.
3. George Washington Carver National Monument -- Life
   George Washington Carver captured the imagination of the American people. The romance of his life story and the eccentricities of his personality led to his metamorphosis into a kind of folk saint both in his lifetime and after. he was readily appropriated by many diverse groups as a symbol of myriad causes, To Southern businessmen Carver was an incarnation of the New South philosophy. Religious leaders embraced the scientist's proclaimed reliance upon God as an inspirational source in an age of materialism. Those struggling through the depression saw Carver as a living Horatio Alger whose story offered to those who tried hard enough. To people concerned with race relations Carver's career was either proof of the ability and intelligence of Afro-Americans of an indication that slavery and segregation could not have been too bad if they produced a Carver.
4. George Washington Carver National Monument -- Diamond Grove
   George Washington Carver was honored by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in July 14, 1943 dedicating $30,000 for a national monument to be dedicated to his accomplishments. The area of Carver's childhood near Diamond Grove, Missouri has been preserved as a park, with a bust of the agricultural researcher, instructor, and chemical investigator. This park was the first designated national monument to an African American in the United States. George Washington Carver was bestowed an honorary doctorate from Simpson College in 1928. He was made a member of the Royal Society of Arts in London, England. He received the Spingarn Medal in 1923, which is given every year by the National Association for the Advancement of colored People.
5. George Washington Carver National Monument -- Peanuts
   George Washington Carver was born on a Missouri farm near Diamond Grove (now called Diamond), Newton County in Marion Township, Missouri. He received a B.S. from the Iowa Agricultural College in 1894 and a M.S. in 1896. He became a member of the faculty of Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in charge of the school's bacterial laboratory work in the Systematic Botany department. His work with agricultural products developed industrial applications from farm products, called chemurgy in technical literature in the early 1900s. His research developed 325 products from peanuts, 108 applications for sweet potatoes, and 75 products derived from pecans. He moved to Tuskegee, Alabama in 1896 to accept a position as an instructor at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and remained on the faculty until his death in 1943.
6. Wallace, George
   George Wallace talks about SALT talks. Wallace ... talks about bureaucracy, the tax structure, crime in the streets, and domestic unrest in his family, and he says he is considering running for the Senate.
7. Esther Rolle -- New York
   Rolle attended Booker T. Washington High School in Miami, Florida and then Spelman College for a year before moving to New York. She supported herself by working in a pocketbook factory while auditioning for the theater. While taking drama classes at George Washington Carver School in Harlem, she got a scholarship to study acting at New York's innovative New School for Social Research. During this time she met and became a member of African dance master Asadata Dafora's dance troupe, Shogola Oloba, she became the troupe's director in 1960.
8. Inventors -- National Inventors Hall
   "The National Gallery for America’s Young Inventors is a program established for the purpose of enshrining great inventions produced by America’s youth. The National Gallery complements the efforts of the National Inventors Hall of Fame by inducting six young people in grades K- 12 annually. In this way, the National Gallery is taking the great ideas of American youth and preserving them forever.
9. Robert Taylor -- Books
   At DEC's Systems Research Center, now owned by Compaq, Mr. Taylor built another world-class computer systems laboratory. Among the technologies it generated were high-performance work stations, a computer language later developed into Sun Microsystems' Java, a number of advanced networking and storage technologies, and electronic books.
10. American -- North American
    American Capital is the second largest U.S. publicly traded alternative asset manager with approximately $11 billion in assets under management (second to Fortress). American Capital, both directly and through its global asset management business, is an investor in management and employee buyouts, private equity buyouts, and early stage and mature private and public companies. American Capital provides senior debt, mezzanine debt and equity to fund growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations and securitizations. American Capital and its affiliates invest from $5 million to $800 million per company in North America and euro 5 million to euro 400 million per company in Europe.

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