Henrietta Lacks Families Website The goal of my research paper is to inform readers who Mrs. Lacks was and the injustice that happened to her and to demonstrate that she deserves recognition. To fully understand my argument one must know who Mrs. Lacks was. For this reason I use the official website of The Lacks Family which presents it. This will help me introduce the topic in my research paper. The source provides Ms. Lacks with background information to help her navigate the topic. She explains that she was originally from rural southern Virginia and lived in Maryland. She was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital due to abdominal pain and vaginal spotting. She died early from cervical cancer in 1951. The source delves into the injustice done to Mrs. Lacks and says that not all of Henrietta Lacks died that day. She unknowingly left behind a part of herself that lives on today: it's called the HeLa cell. His cells were taken and used for medical research without his consent. And for more than 20 years after her death, Henrietta's family learned how science recovered her cells and her enormous contributions to medicine and human life. The site here shows that after his death his cells were studied for medical research and his family was not aware of this until after twenty years. The cells were given the name HeLa cells as a small nod to her by combining her first name Henrietta and last name Lacks. The next part can help me prove that Ms. Lacks deserves recognition for her contribution and that her family deserves some sort of profit because the source says: "Even though Henrietta's cells have launched a multi-million dollar industry selling biological materials humans, the family never saw any of the profits or that He... means of paper... blood" and that the injection was "therapeutic", curing the disease. But the spinal cap was actually used to detect brain-related infections. The source further states: “Tuskegee scientists wanted to continue studying how the disease spreads and kills. The experiment lasted four decades, until public health workers leaked the story to the media.” The quote fits Mrs. Lacks because her family was unaware and the men were also unaware of the experiment. The Lacks family and Rebecca Skloot, who wrote the book about her, made Mrs. Lacks' story viral, and for African American men, the media, with the help of healthcare workers, made the story viral. The men were also given burial insurance for participating, but the Lacks family cannot even afford health insurance or have seen any profit for Mrs. Lacks' contributions to the medical and scientific world..