with george washington carver. he asks him to come to tuskegee institute, alabama, this nothing secondary school, really. it calls itself a college, but it's really like a vocational school in the hills of alabama. and to teach. carver falls under the spell of booker t. washington. now, booker t does not come off too well in my book. actually, he was probably one of the most unpleasant, ruthless , and contemptible people i have met in history. he did wonderful things for his race. i don't begrudge him his obsequiousness to white people, because if you lived in that time, there was no other way. you had to do what he did. you had to sell yourself out. that part of it i can very well excuse. what i can't excuse is the abominable treatment that he delves out to everyone who was personally connected with him, his teachers, his wives, his cohorts, anyone. so, he has a very, very fraught relationship with booker t. washington that in fact ends with a woman he was in love with throwing herself off the top of a building an