![]() ![]() He and his wife Ethel moved in with Day after Henrietta’s death to help take care of the children. ![]() ![]() “Crazy Joe” Grinnan – Henrietta’s cousin who competed unsuccessfully with Day for her affectionįred Garret – Henrietta’s cousin who convinced Day and Henrietta to move to Turner Station.Įthel – Galen’s wife, an abusive caregiver to Henrietta’s three youngest children As children they worked the tobacco fields together. She helped raise Lawrence’s siblings after Henrietta’s death and advocated for them when she discovered they were being abused.Ĭliff Garrett – Henrietta’s cousin. Reverend James Pullum – Deborah’s second ex-husband, a former steel-mill worker who became a preacher.īobette Lacks – Lawrence’s wife. Davon’s mother.ĭavon Meade – Deborah’s grandson who often lived with and took care of her. LaTonya – Deborah and Cheetah’s second child. – Deborah and Cheetah’s firstborn child and little Alfred’s father. The marriage was abusive and ended in divorce.Īlfred Jr. This section is known as Lacks Town.Īlfred “Cheetah” Carter – Deborah’s first husband. He had five children by a former slave named Maria and left part of the Lacks plantation to them. Tommy Lacks – Henrietta and Day’s grandfather who raised both of them.Īlbert Lacks – Henrietta’s white great-grandfather. Gladys Lacks – Henrietta’s sister who disapproved of Henrietta’s marriage to Day. He left his ten children when their mother died. Henrietta was diagnosed with cervical cancer shortly after his birth.Įliza Lacks Pleasant – Henrietta’s mother. ![]() Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman (born Joe Lacks) – Henrietta and Day’s fifth child. “Sonny” Lacks – Henrietta and Day’s third childĭeborah “Dale” Lacks – Henrietta and Day’s fourth child She was institutionalized due to epilepsy and died at age fifteen.ĭavid Jr. Lawrence Lacks – Henrietta and Day’s firstborn childĮlsie Lacks (born Lucille Elsie Pleasant) – Henrietta’s second born and eldest daughter. Henrietta Lacks – born Loretta Pleasant in Roanoke Virginia in 1920ĭavid “Day” Lacks – Henrietta’s husband and cousin It’s a story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we’re made of.ĭeborah Lacks looking at her mother's cells for the first time, 2001, courtesy of Critics at Large The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine of scientific discovery and faith healing and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew. Soon to be made into an HBO movie by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball, this New York Times bestseller takes readers on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers filled with HeLa cells, from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells-taken without her knowledge in 1951-became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. About The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ![]()
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