The experiment, called the Tuskegee Study began in 1932 with about 600 black men mostly poor and uneducated, from Tuskegee, Ala., an area that had the highest syphilis rate in the nation at the time.

Local News Tuskegee Experiment's Legacy: Lack of Trust Posted 11:17 a.m. Aug 4, 2006 - Updated 9:00 p.m. May 16, 1997 ...

This was rarely more apparent than in the Tuskegee Experiment, a 40-year ordeal that involved 400 Black men against their will and without their knowledge in a study of the long-term effects of ...

He also represented the men of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in Pollard v. United States of America, helping to win monetary damages for the victims and their families. Gray served in the Alabama State ...

Peter Buxtun, who blew the lid off the so-called Tuskegee study in which the U.S. government withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama over decades in a macabre and ra… ...

A cache of documents related to the Tuskegee syphilis study — a 40-year experiment that tracked infected Black men without treating them — has now been digitized for public use, the National ...

What to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: 'Romeo and Juliet,' new play about the Tuskegee Experiment 90.5 WESA | By Bill O'Driscoll Published February 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM EST Michael Henninger ...

Alabama Life & Culture Descendants of Tuskegee syphilis experiment can apply for $5 million in scholarships Updated: Feb. 15, 2024, 9:59 a.m. | Published: Feb. 14 ...

Bruxton, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, died on May 18 ...