Fund that covered funeral costs of Tuskegee syphilis study victims apologizes : NPR
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 11, 2022
People attend a ceremony near Tuskegee, Ala., in 2017, to commemorate the roughly 600 men who were subjects in the Tuskegee syphilis study.
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People attend a ceremony near Tuskegee, Ala., in 2017, to commemorate the roughly 600 men who were subjects in the Tuskegee syphilis study.
Jay Reeves/AP
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease, a foundation in New . . .
