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The men were told they were being treated for “bad blood.”

For four decades, the United States government enrolled hundreds of Black men in Alabama in a study on syphilis, just so they could document the disease’s ravages on the human body

Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the U.S. Public Health Service refused for decades to provide readily available treatment to Black men who had the disease.

Starting in 1932, medical workers in Alabama withheld treatment from unsuspecting Black men infected with syphilis.

Fifty years after the study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made funeral payments for the men who died publicly apologized to descendants of the study's victims.

A New York-based philanthropy is publicly apologizing for its role in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study

Researcher Martin Tobin believes that revisiting the horrific "study" can help medical professional address today’s disparities.

The first Black pilots to serve in the United States military put the U.S. armed forces on the road to integration