#so idk if Jim Crow was in place hard and black women couldn't get work there and thus had to use radioactive materials in the factories

[sins-of-the-sea]

Have y’all ever died from radiation?

"Just Abbi so far, unfortunately. While Abena wasn't among the original Radium Girls, she had her hands on some of that luminescent paint thinking it was harmless."

"We couldn't get to the root of why I kept getting ill and dying no matter how much I used it until the scientific truth was out! How was I to know it was harmful?! And I used it recreationally as fingernail polish and makeup! Imagine the actual poor factory workers who had to work with the paint as a livelihood!"