Looking Back At the Tuskegee Experiment 50 Years Later

07/28/2022

The horrendous study still resounds today.

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Looking Back At the Tuskegee Experiment 50 Years Later

The horrendous study inflicted on deliberately untreated Black men to see how syphilis affected them, still resounds today.
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