The Ball Method
History
Drama
Overview
Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.
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Keywords
hawaii
leprosy
based on true story
chemist
leper colony
black history
1910s
african american history
short film
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