The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: 40 Years of Deliberate Medical Neglect That Destroyed Hundreds of Lives (1932–1972)
For forty unbroken years, the United States Public Health Service watched 399 Black men in Alabama go blind, lose their minds, and die — while holding a cure in their hands and choosing not to use it. The men were never told they had syphilis. They were never offered penicillin. They were watched, recorded, … Read more