In 1915, Alice Augusta Ball, a 23-year-old Black chemist, developed the first effective injectable treatment for leprosy—saving thousands of lives. But after her sudden death in 1916, a white colleague took credit, publishing her research under his own name. For decades, patients were cured while Alice Ball’s name vanished from history. Her breakthrough didn’t disappear—it was stolen. This wasn’t oversight. It was deliberate erasure. “History they don’t teach in school” “Forgotten history nobody