The Tuskegee syphilis study begins

The U.S. Public Health Service begins a 40-year study that deceives 600 Black men in Alabama and withholds treatment for syphilis even after a cure exists.

Medical Racism

Resources

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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study — digitized records

U.S. National Library of Medicine

Newly public primary-source archive of the 40-year study.

The web

Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.

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White-Supremacist Ideology
The study assumed Black lives were expendable for research.

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White-Supremacist Ideology

The study assumed Black lives were expendable for research.