Medical Science
This is the name scientists gave the cell line created from Henrietta's cells
What is HeLa?
This is Henrietta's husband.
Who is David "Day" Lacks?
This is the town in Virginia where Henrietta grew up.
Clover
"Lord, it just feels like the blackness be spreadin all inside me"
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This is why Henrietta had to go to Johns Hopkins Hospital?
Johns Hopkins Hospital was one of the few that treated African-American patients during the Jim Crow laws in Baltimore during the 1950s.
This is the institution that first collected Henrietta's cells and used them for research.
What is Johns Hopkins Hospital?
She is Henrietta's "baby girl," whom Rebecca calls.
Who is Deborah?
This is the city where Johns Hopkins Hospital is located.
Where is Baltimore?
"You know what I really want? I want to know, what did my mother smell like? For all my life I just don't know anything, not even the little common little things, like what color she like."
Who is Deborah Lacks?
This is why Henrietta was forced to live with her Grandpa Tommy at a young age.
What is her mother died giving birth, and her father did not want to raise her?
This scientist was working to grow human cells in the laboratory when Henrietta's cells came to his attention.
Who is George Guy?
He jumped into a frozen pond and refused to come out until Henrietta went out on a date with him.
Who is "Crazy Joe?"
This is the decade when Henrietta was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
What are the 1950s?
"Well, so let my old lady cells talk to you and leave me alone, I had enough 'a you people."
Who is David " Day" Lacks
Henrietta's heart was broken when she had to send her daughter Elsie here.
What is Crownsville State Hospital (a mental institution), formerly known as the Hospital for the Negro Insane?
A medical procedure that removes a small sample of cells to check for cancer.
What is a biopsy?
She was George Guy's 21-year-old lab assistant.
Who is Mary Kubicek?
The community where David and Henrietta moved to in Baltimore.
What is Turner Station?
"Hennie made life come alive - bein with her was like bein with fun"
Who is Sadie?
This is the S.T.D. that was unethically studied on African-American men at the Tuskegee Institute in the 1930s, which watched them die slow, painful, and preventable deaths.
What is Syphilis?
This was the treatment used to kill Henrietta's cancer. Its side effects included burning her from the inside
What is radium or X-ray treatment?
He is the professor of gynecology at Morehouse State University that Rebecca calls in order to get in touch with the Lacks family.
Who is Roland Pattilo?
Grandpa Tommy would take Henrietta and Day to this Virginia town to sell their tobacco harvest.
What is South Boston?
"Every moment those cells sat in the dish made it more likely they'd die. But she was tired of cell culture, tired of meticulously cutting away dead tissue ... "
Who is Mary Kubicek?
This is the state where the so-called "__________ Appendectomies" were given. Basically, hysterectomies were performed on poor African-American women to stop them from reproducing.
Where is Mississippi?