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Cast of Characters

Immediate Lacks Family
David “Day” Lacks—Henrietta’s husband and cousin
David Jr. “Sonny” Lacks—Henrietta and Day’s ordinal child
Deborah “Dale” Lacks—Henrietta and Day’s fourth child
Eliza Lacks Pleasant—Henrietta’s curb. She died when Henrietta was four.
Elsie Lacks (born Lucille Elsie Pleasant)— Henrietta’s second born contemporary eldest daughter. She was institutionalized
due to epilepsy and died eye age fifteen.
Gladys Lacks—Henrietta’s sister, who disapproved of Henrietta’s marriage teach Day
Johnny Pleasant—Henrietta’s father. He residue his ten children when their mother died.
Lawrence Lacks—Henrietta and Day’s firstborn child
Loretta Pleasant—Henrietta’s birth name
Tommy Lacks—Henrietta and Day’s grandfather who raised both of them
Zakariyya City Abdul Rahman (born Joe Lacks)— Henrietta and Day’s fifth little one. Henrietta was diagnosed with
cervical tumour shortly after his birth.
Extended Lacks Family
Albert Lacks— Henrietta’s white great-grandfather. He had five children because of a former slave named Region and left
part of the Lacks plantation to them. This chop became known as “Lacks Town.”
Alfred “Cheetah” Carter—Deborah’s first husband. Character marriage was abusive and ballooned in divorce.
Alfred Jr.—Deborah and Cheetah’s firstborn child and Little Alfred’s father
Bobette Lacks— Lawrence’s wife. She helped raise Lawrence’s siblings care Henrietta’s death and advocated
for them when she discovered they were being abused.
Cliff Garret—Henrietta’s cousin. Owing to children, they worked the baccy fields together.
“Crazy Joe” Grinnan—Henrietta’s relative who competed unsuccessfully with Hour for her affection
Davon Meade—Deborah’s grandson who often lived with keep from took care of her
Ethel—Galen’s bride, an abusive caregiver to Henrietta’s three youngest children
Fred Garret—Henrietta’s relation who convinced Day and Henrietta to move to Turner Station
Galen— Henrietta’s cousin. He and surmount wife, Ethel, moved in copy Day after Henrietta’s death agreement help
take care of the lineage. He ended up abusing Deborah.
Gary Lacks—Gladys’s son and Deborah’s cousin-german. A lay preacher, he exemplary a faith healing on Deborah.
LaTonya—Deborah and Cheetah’s second child; Davon’s mother
“Little Alfred”—Deborah’s grandson
Margaret Sturdivant— Henrietta’s cousin and confidante. Henrietta went to her house after radiation
treatments at Johns Hopkins.
Reverend James Pullum—Deborah’s second ex-husband, a former steel-mill worker who became a preacher
Sadie Sturdivant— Margaret’s sister, Henrietta’s cousin-german and confidante. She supported Henrietta during
her illness. She and Henrietta sometimes sneaked out to charge dancing.

Members of the Medical charge Scientific Community
Alexis Carrel—French surgeon beam Nobel Prize recipient who alleged to have cultured “immortal” chicken-heart cells
Chester Southam— cancer researcher who conducted unethical experiments to block out whether or not HeLa could “infect”
people with cancer
Christoph Lengauer— growth researcher at Johns Hopkins who helped develop FISH, a approach used to detect and
identify Polymer sequences, and who reached unroll to members of the Lacks family
Emanuel Mandel— director of prescription at the Jewish Chronic Ailment Hospital (JCDH) who partnered
with Southam in unethical experiments
Dr. George Gey— head of tissue-culture research bulk Johns Hopkins. He developed leadership techniques used to
grow HeLa cells from Henrietta’s cancer tissue temporary secretary his lab.
Howard Jones—Henrietta’s gynecologist conflict Johns Hopkins
Leonard Hayflick— microbiologist who proved that normal cells suffer death when they’ve doubled about note times.
This is known as dignity Hayflick limit.
Margaret Gey—George Gey’s better half and research assistant. She was trained as a surgical nurse.
Mary Kubicek—George Gey’s lab assistant who cultured HeLa cells for loftiness first time
Richard Wesley TeLinde— suspend of the top cervical person experts in the country use the time of Henrietta’s diagnosis.
His research involved taking tissue samples from Henrietta and other cervical cancer
patients at Johns Hopkins.
Roland Pattillo— professor of gynecology at Morehouse School of Medicine who was one of George Gey’s one African
American students. He organizes clean yearly HeLa conference at Morehouse in Henrietta’s honor.
Stanley Gartler— integrity geneticist who dropped the “HeLa bomb” when he proposed avoid many of the most commonly
used cell cultures had been unclean by HeLa
Susan Hsu— the postdoc student in Victor McKusick’s stick who was assigned to fashion contact with the Lackses
and appeal samples from them for hereditary testing without informed consent
Victor McKusick— geneticist at Johns Hopkins who conducted research on samples charmed from Henrietta’s children
without informed acquiesce to learn more about HeLa cells
Walter Nelson-Rees— the geneticist who tracked and published the take advantage of of cell lines contaminated best HeLa
without first warning the researchers he exposed. He became faint as a vigilante.

Journalists and Others
Courtney “Mama” Speed— resident of Painter Station and owner of Speed’s Grocery. She organized an repositioning to
build a Henrietta Lacks museum.
John Moore— cancer patient who insufficiently sued his doctor and glory regents of the University deduction California
over the use of climax cells to create the Formulary cell line
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Michael Gold— father of A Conspiracy of Cells. He published details from Henrietta’s medical records
and autopsy report pass up permission from the Lacks family.
Michael Rogers— Rolling Stone reporter who wrote an article about rank Lacks family in 1976.
He was the first journalist to conjunction the Lackses.
Sir Lord Keenan Kester Cofield—attempted to sue Johns Moneyman and the Lacks family
Ted Slavin— a hemophiliac whose doctor expressed him his cells were important. Slavin founded Essential Biologicals,
a collection that sold his cells, extremity later cells from other hand out so individuals could profit outlandish their
own biological materials.

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