#tuskegee study

Tuskegee Syphilis Study participants, NARA IDs 824600,824604,824601,956126.

“BAD BLOOD” Study Begins #OTD 1932

‘Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male’
By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

Interview notes, 11/1/1972, NARA ID 650715.

Certificate for Tuskegee Study Participants 1958, NARA ID 649413.

Memo ending the Tuskegee Study, 11/16/1972, NARA ID 650716

It was a time when our nation failed to live up to its ideals, when our nation broke the trust…that is the very foundation of our democracy. The United States government did something that was wrong, deeply, profoundly, morally wrong…

What was done cannot be undone. But we can end the silence. We can stop turning our heads away. We can look at you in the eye and finally say on behalf of the American people, what the United States government did was shameful, and I am sorry. President Clinton’s apology, 5/16/1997, NARA ID 5956342.

More online:
If Not for the Public Outcry: The Tuskegee Syphilis Project/ Study, Rediscovering Black History

See the records:
Tuskegee Syphilis Study Administrative Records, 1929 - 1972
Tuskegee Patient Medical Records, 1933 - 1972