In the 1950s, the segregation was very active, such as blacks and whites went to different hospitals for treatment. Henrietta had to travel a while to get to Johns Hopkins hospital for her treatment, because it was the only one that treated blacks in that area (pg.14). So clearly, the segregation was an issue. Therefore, Rebecca Skloot may not have been able to talk to the lacks family to get the information she needed for her book. It also could have been she would not have been as interested in the family, as she was when she published many years after Henrietta’s death when segregation had diminished. Therefore, for this reason the story would have changed if the book had been published in the