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Name: Why You’ve Never Heard of the Woman Who Cured Leprosy” #history #blackhistory #facts
Uploaded: 2025-06-09T22:10:30-04:00
Description: You’ve heard of Louis Pasteur and Alexander Fleming… But what about Alice Ball — the young Black woman who discovered the first effective cure for leprosy at just 23? In the early 1900s, leprosy was a death sentence. Alice Ball, a chemist and the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Hawaii, changed...

Why You’ve Never Heard of the Woman Who Cured Leprosy” #history #blackhistory #facts