HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Feb. 28 marks Alice Ball Day and the end of Black History Month, which commemorates the achievements of the first African American woman to graduate from UH Manoa and ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Community leaders and students celebrated Black History Month Wednesday and Alice Augusta Ball, a black UH chemist who created a treatment for leprosy. Her discovery was ...
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Alice Ball (1892-1916) was an African American chemist who developed the “Ball Method,” the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. She was born on July 24, 1892, in ...