Bennie Douglas Mayberry Collection on George Washington Carver

Bennie Douglas Mayberry spent nearly 40 years working at the Tuskegee Institute, first in the department of horticulture and later as the director of the Carver Research Foundation. Known as an innovative researcher and dynamic teacher, Mayberry was also an administrator who developed research and instructional programs. Some of his accomplishments include improving methods for canning sweet potato, developing instructional materials in the isotope and radiation technology program in 1959, devising nutrient management projects that examined the absorption and translocation of strontium in plants, and the effects of maleic hydrazide in tea. He was influenced by George Washington Carver, who guest lectured during Mayberry's undergraduate years.