The Tuskegee Study

In 1972 a great injustice was discovered by Jean Heller. The great injustice was the Tuskegee study. I was a study performed in 1932 on 600 African-American men. 399 of the men were infected with the STD. syphilis and 201 of them were not infected with the disease. All of these men were uneducated and poor. So when the government offered them free physical examinations, free rides to and from the clinics, hot meals on examinations days, free treatments for …

…Gray also demanded 3 million in damages for each living participant and the heirs of the deceased. The case never went to trial. In 1974 the government agreed to a 10 million out of court settlement. The living participants each received 37,500 in damages, the heirs of the deceased, 15,000. Not until 1997 did the government apologize for the injustice that happened in the Tuskegee Study. The apology did not right all of the wrongs but it was a good start.