Henrietta Lacks: An Ordinary Life On August 1, 1920, a girl named Loretta Pleasant was born in Roanoke, Virginia, the ninth of a total of ten children. After her mother’s death during childbirth in 1924, Loretta’s father, Johnny Pleasant, was overwhelmed with caring for all of his children and deposited them among various relatives in […]
Henrietta Lacks: An Ordinary Life On August 1, 1920, a girl named Loretta Pleasant was born in Roanoke, Virginia, the ninth of a total of ten children. After her mother’s death during childbirth in 1924, Loretta’s father, Johnny Pleasant, was overwhelmed with caring for all of his children and deposited them among various relatives in […]