Starting in the 1920s, The New Negro Alliance’s ( NNA) movement focused on ending racist hiring and promoting nondiscriminatory practices in the food industry in the nation’s capital. William H. Hastie, who had graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College before earning a Harvard law degree, serve as one of the organization’s attorneys.
George Washington Carver played in Tuskegee County, Alabama in the late 19th century. He created the Jessup wagon which brought farming technologies and his new discoveries for the use of peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other crops to the residents of the county where Tuskegee Institute resided.
