Loney Clinton Gordon has an important role to play in the development of the vaccine against pertussis (whooping cough). She formed part of a three-woman team who worked on the vaccine.
Tag: Black History Month
An African slave by the name of Onesimus might have been the key person in beginning the fight against smallpox in the American Colonies in the early 1700s.
Three women who pioneered the vaccine against whooping cough have been immortalized in sculpture.
Mae C. Jemison, MD, was the first Black woman to go into space, but that…
Loney Clinton Gordon was born in Arkansas in 1915. After moving to Michigan as a…