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CSUSB Office of Black Student Success

#OBSSLive

Brandon E. Gamble, Ed.D.

brandon.gamble@csusb.edu

Director, Office of Black Student Success

10/31/2024

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Highlight Great Things at CSUSB!

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George Washington Carver

He was an African American agricultural scientist and inventor
While a professor at Tuskegee Institute, he improved American crop development and soil enrichment
He was an adopted child born during a time of enslavement for Black people

He was not expected to live past his 21st birthday due to failing health. He lived well past the age of 21, and his belief deepened as a result. Carver believed he could have faith both in God and science and integrated them into his life. He testified on many occasions that his faith in Jesus was the only mechanism by which he could effectively pursue and perform the art of science

In the 1880s Carver applied to several colleges before being accepted at Highland University in Highland, Kansas. When he arrived, they refused to let him attend because of his race.

In early 1888, Carver obtained a $300 (~$10,173 in 2023) loan at the Bank of Ness City for education. By June he left the area.^[16] In 1890, Carver started studying art and piano at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.^[18] His art teacher, Etta Budd, recognized Carver's talent for painting flowers and plants; she encouraged him to study botany at Iowa State Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) in Ames.^[18] When he began there in 1891, he was the first black student at Iowa State where he earned both his bachelor’s and masters degrees. Although many people called him Simpson College and Selma University awarded him honorary doctorates of science in his lifetime.^[23]^[24] In addition, Iowa State awarded him a posthumous doctor of humane letters degree in 1994.

He was buried next to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee University. Due to his frugality, Carver's life savings totaled $60,000, all of which he donated in his last years and at his death to the Carver Museum and to the George Washington Carver Foundation.^[61]

On his grave was written, "He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world."^[

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CSUSB Black History

10/10/1969 – Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, speaking in the Physical Sciences building on the topic of "Black Protest" at the first in a series of Lectures and Public Affairs Committee programs designed around the theme of Black Expression.

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EOP

Educational

Opportunity

Program

@eopcsusb

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OBSS

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OBSS

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OBSS Student Mentors

If you know

a first year student

who wants a mentor

from OBSS

contact us at

obss@csusb.edu

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Reminders!!!

Sign up for our Newsletter on the OBSS Webpage!

OBSS at Palm Desert Campus, we’ll be back in November!

Watch out for our OBSS Speaker Series Link on IG to YouTube!!!

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Prizes!!! Answer a question and Visit Me today before 4:45pm

Be the 1st to visit me

at the OBSS by

4:30-4:45 pm!!!

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Q: Who was one of the

historical persons I

mentioned?

Brandon E. Gamble, Ed.D.

brandon.gamble@csusb.edu

Office: 909-537-3379

Call or text: 714-612-0023