Tuskegee Experiment

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments remains one of the most appalling instances of government-sponsored mistreatment of Black people. On this day in 1972, after decades of unethical study, a whistleblower publicly exposed the experiments via a newspaper article. The experiments began in 1932, when 600 poor sharecroppers from Macon County, Ala. were duped into thinking they were […]

The Tuskegee Syphilis study was one of the most notorious biomedical experiments in U.S. history. In 1972, forty years ago, Jean Heller of the Washington Evening Star wrote in front page news “Syphilis Patients Died Untreated” making the forty-year experiment public knowledge and bringing shame to public health for the conspiracy. 600 poor black male […]