Wikimedia Commons/National Archives Atlanta, GA
Table of Contents
How the Tuskegee syphilis study began in 1932
The men thought they were lucky. Free meals, free medical exams, even burial insurance.
What 600 African American men in rural Alabama didn’t know was that they were test subjects in America’s longest-running medical experiment. From 1932 to 1972, doctors watched them die from syphilis without treatment…