George Washington Carver’s Southern disillusionment drove him to radical acts by the 1930s

Evidence

By the 1930s, the scientist, George Washington Carver, the “folk saint” of Tuskegee and a large part of the substantiation of Washington’s rationalizations on race, was embittered enough by his experiences in the South and elsewhere in the country to send some of his best students to the Soviet Union and prescribe poisons for radical activist friends who might use them as the less painful death in confrontation with white mobs. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2182

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