Black Medical Inventions
(Fill in the blank, two words) Michael Croslin computerized ______ ______ monitors, which measure in both systolic and diastolic units.
What is blood pressure?
This medical term means fast
What is tachy-?
This blood disease occurs in about 1 out of every 365 African-American births.
What is sickle cell disease?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Who is most famously known for refusing to sit in the back of the bus?
Who is Rosa Parks?
(Fill in the blank) Otis Boykin invented a control unit for the ______, a machine that uses electrical impulses to maintain a regular heartbeat.
What is a pacemaker?
If someone presents with bronchitis, they have inflammation of the …
What are the lungs?
This chest related disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and disproportionately affects black communities by 10%.
What is heart disease?
Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line in 1947 when he was signed by this team.
What are The Dodgers?
One of the most influential leaders in the abolitionist movement. He had a very popular autobiography.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
(Fill in the blank) Charles Drew was the first person to create blood banks, places where blood was stored for use in blood _______, a process where blood is transferred from one person to another.
What is a blood transfusion?
A gastroenterologist is a physician who specializes in the treatment of the …
What is the digestive system/stomach?
This immunodeficiency virus sparked a large epidemic in the 80s amongst African American men.
What is HIV/AIDS?
Harlem had one of these literary & cultural rebirths in the '20s & '30s. This name for rebirth can also be found in Beyonce’s discography.
What is a Renaissance?
This civil rights leader was a prominent religious leader who advocated for the adoption of Islam within the black community and was assassinated when he was 39.
Malcolm X
Dr. Patricia Bath invented a surgical procedure to clear the clouding of the normally clear lens of the eye? What is this condition called?
What is a cataract?
The medication abbreviation CPR stands for …
What is a Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?
African-American men are 50 percent more likely than white men to get this type of cancer.
What is lung cancer?
This holiday commemorates the freedom of enslaved people in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
Who was the first black Supreme Court justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
(Fill in the blank) Dr. Leonidas Berry invented a ______ scope to remove diseased stomach tissue. This is also the name of the test used to check the inside of your throat, food pipe (esophagus) and stomach.
What is a gastroscopy? OR What is an endoscopy?
This is an anatomical term meaning toward the head end or upper part of the body.
What is superior?
This is NOT a social factor that affects African Americans at younger ages (according to Pfizer)
A. unemployment, B. living in poverty, C. smoking, D. access to mental health resources
What is D. access to mental health resources?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States, or any place subject to its jurisdiction.
What is the 13th amendment?
Who delivered what is now recognized as one of the most famous abolitionist and women's rights speeches in American history, “Ain't I a Woman?” in 1851.
A. Harriet Tubman, B. Rosalind Franklin, C. Sojourner Truth, D. Ida B. Wells
Who is C. Sojourner Truth?