This month in 1972, the Washington Star newspaper exposed the Tuskegee Institute syphilis experiment — a secret study on the effects of untreated syphilis in Black men in Alabama. Learn more: https://comca.st/3f7GA9X | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

America’s Most Evil Medical Experiment: The Tuskegee Study From 1932 to 1972, the U.S. government knowingly allowed hundreds of Black men in Alabama to suffer and die from syphilis even after a cure existed. They were promised free healthcare. They were told they had “bad blood.” What they weren’t told was the truth: they were being used as test subjects. When penicillin became available in the 1940s, doctors were ordered not to treat them. Men went blind. Men lost their minds. Men died. Wives w

Dig into the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which spanned 40 years and lied to its participants about receiving treatment for syphilis: | TED-Ed