Henrietta Lacks
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- Girls, I have cancer.Please take care of my babies, especially my beautiful baby girl, Dale.
- I heard Hopkins isn't the most trust worthy and have a history of experimenting and taking advantage of colored people. But its my only hope.
- Henrietta Looks down at her 5 kids through the window crying. As her friends help her to stand because she is so weak from her sickness.
- Once Henrietta had died she was taken to a lab to be studied.
- We have to make sure we take Henrietta's name off of the tube We can put HeLa instead.
- Henrietta's cancer cells are ground breaking. They are the first ever human cells to be able to live and grow out side the human body.
- Little do they know they are test subjects. Either way they are uneducated black people and wouldn't understand.
- Daddy, why are they taking our blood and doing all this testing.
- They're just making sure none of us have the same type of cancer your mom died from.
- Dale, Zakariyya, and Rebecca visit John Hopkins to see their mother's HeLa cells for the first time.
- Hello guys, I'm so glad to meet you. You have no idea how much your mother's cells have done for science. They've even helped develop the polio vaccines and Kemo Drugs.
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