AP African American Studies / Unit 4: Movements and Debates

4.20 Science, Medicine, and Technology in Black Communities

3 practice questions

Notes

Black scientists and inventors contributed widely (George Washington Carver, Charles Drew blood banks, Katherine Johnson at NASA). Medical abuses (the Tuskegee syphilis study, 1932–1972; Henrietta Lacks's cells taken without consent) caused lasting distrust.

Practice

The Tuskegee syphilis study was:

Charles Drew is known for:

Katherine Johnson worked at NASA as a:

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