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Henrietta Lacks Timeline

1920’s

August 5 1920-Henrietta Lacks is born in Roanoke, Virginia with the name Loretta Pleasant
1924-Henrietta’s mother Eliza Lacks Pleasant dies giving birth
Henrietta went to go live with her grandfather, Tommy Lacks and her cousins Joe and Day on a tobacco farm
1930’s
1934-Henrietta becomes pregnant with her cousin Day’s child Lawrence and later a daughter Elsie who was mentally challenged
1940’s
1940 -Fred buys a bus ticket to travel up north to join his other cousins working at a steel mill outside of baltimore called turner station
April 20 1941-Henrietta and Day get married
December 1941-Japan bombs pearl Harbor which bring more demand from Turner Station
Henrietta cousin Fred returns successfully from …show more content…

On Henrietta’s deathbed Gey tells her that her cells will make her immortal.
The tuskegee institute began giving cells for polio research but soon after began sending cells to any scientist who wanted them
The hela cells were used to create many scientific breakthroughs and understanding of cells such as the use of freezing cells for delivery and the standardization of cell culturing
Skloot and Deborah
1990
1999 Skloot reaches out to Roland Pattillo after coming across a collection of scientific papers compiled by Pattillo about Henrietta, after she decides she wants to write about …show more content…

Skloot travels to a town called Clover in virginia to visit Henrietta’s childhood home and one of her cousins Hector Henry that people called cootie.While she is there she also visits Henrietta’s grave.
2000’s

July 9 2000 Skloot and Deborah finally meet at a bed and breakfast near Baltimore. Skloot then take Deborah to learn more about her mother’s cells and about how they have helped many people. Later that day Deborah becomes upset that Skloot reached for her mom's medical records and leaves saying she doesn't know who to trust
The next day Deborah has seemingly forgive Skloot and they go to visit Zakariyya in order to get more information.
The three of them visit Christopher Lengauer's lab in order to see the HeLa cells
To learn the truth about what happened to Elsie they travelled to Crownsville
They learned that she died in an overcrowded facility and lived in abysmal conditions. Patients were often experimented on without their consent. Elsie eventually died after self inducing vomiting for six months
After the finishing the visit Deborah becomes sick and has to leave

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