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Awards

Carver was the recipient of many prestigious awards for his achievements. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of Great Britain in 1916. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) awarded Carver the Spingarn Medal in 1923. In 1943 Congress established the George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond, Missouri, on the farm where Carver was born.