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Increased
Food Supply
Inventions turned
crops into plenty
Dr. George W ashington Carver’s
development of hundreds of new uses
for peanuts, soybeans, sweet potatoes
and other crops helped pave the way
for many of our modern conveniences.
Carver’s beginnings were inauspi­
cious; he was never sure about the date
of his birth, sometimes claiming it was
“about 1865,” or “near the end of the
war,” or "just as freedom was declared."
What is known is that he was bom a
slave near Diamond Grove, Mo., never
knew his parents, and was raised by the
white couple who had owned his mother.
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Hotel Workforce Builds a Middle Class
The staff of the former Portland Hotel, primarily made up o f African American men, was lead by head-waiter Albert Morton. There was
virtually no change in the occupation o f the black work force until 1942, when World War II hit and about 2 0 ,0 0 0 African Americans
were recruited from the Northeast and South to work in Portland and Vancouver shipyards. The Portland Hotel also recruited workers
from the South. The workers at the hotel earned wages high enough to purchase homes and start their own businesses, which began
the boom o f the black middle class in Portland.
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