unsung hero Alice Ball

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 You may or may not know about Alice Ball. If you don't, let me tell you about her. Alice was a chemist who made a treatment for leprosy, a very bad sickness. She was also doubted because she was an African American girl but that didn't discourage her. Mrs. Ball, the hero who worked day and night not getting much sleep working on the antidote that would save thousands of lives. Now, let me tell you more about the unsung hero Alice Ball.

The amazing Alice Ball was an African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s. Alice Ball's family was James Presley and Laura Louise (Howard) Ball (her parents), and two older brothers, William and Robert, along with a younger sister named Addie. Alice Ball was born in 1892 in Seattle, Washington, she died only 24 years later in 1916 again in Seattle, Washington. How Ball died was she had become ill during her research and returned to Seattle for treatment a few months before her death and it had been identified as chlorine poisoning. Soon after she died there in Seattle. Alice Ball and her family moved from Seattle to Honolulu during Alice's childhood in hopes that the warm weather would help with her grandfather's, James Ball Sr. 's, arthritis. He died shortly after their move and they relocated back to Seattle only after a year of living in Hawaii. 

Ms. Ball had to overcome a bunch of obstacles. Some of them were that she was a woman, and at the time women were thought to be not as good at things as men. Also she was African American and had to face racism. But she still pushed through and was an inspiration for women and black people everywhere. Also Alice Ball was the very first colored and the

first woman to graduate with a M.S. degree in chemistry from the College of Hawaii! After that Alice Ball had been enlisted to help develop a treatment for leprosy by Dr Harry Hollmann (Kyle Secor) using the oil from the seeds of the chaulmoogra tree.

So now the heroic song of Alice Ball has been sung. We should respect how hard she worked being an African American and the first woman to get an M.S. degree in chemistry from the College of Hawaii. Also don’t forget the thousands of lives she saved by making the antidote for leprosy. That is why you should thank Alice for what she has done.


speacial thanks to

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18kFFUC03FQ3QQbRX6OOmC5jvLYwuY-nz/view


Scientificwomen.net

En.wikipedia.org


biography.com

Comments

  1. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2021 at 10:09 AM

    Great job! I love how you really went into detail about her life!

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2021 at 10:13 AM

    This was a good blog I don't know if you added anything from the last time I read it, but it looks good!

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2021 at 10:17 AM

    I really like your topic paragraph and how you talked about her in your topic paragraph

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