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Carver wasn't just the "man who did something with peanuts." He was adept at teaching poor southern farmers of all skin tones how to turn well-worn soil into highly productive fields. Rosenwald schools across the South used his teachings, and northwest Louisiana became home to one of the nation's most extraordinary distributions of Rosenwald schools. He helped countless poor farmers in the United States begin and participate in farmers' unions. And Carver mentored a young Shreveport man named Luther Jones. ....

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