In the book The Negro in Business, the author devotes an early section under agriculture to “Potato King” Junius Groves, one person described by this term. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this term, which names a 1976 work by historian Nell Irvin Painter. This term titles the collection of Black Americans who traveled from the American South to Kansas in 1879, before the later Great Migration.
ANSWER: exodusters
[10m] This author of The Negro in Business endeavored to give some space in the book to the National Negro Business League, which he helped found. This man also helped lead an agriculture-focused “Institute” in Alabama.
ANSWER: Booker T. Washington (Washington helped lead the Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University.)
[10e] Another Black emigrant to Kansas in the late 1870’s was this agricultural scientist, who worked at Washington’s Tuskegee Institute and developed many peanut-related inventions.
ANSWER: George Washington Carver
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