The payments were vital to survivors of the victims in a time and place ravaged by poverty and racism.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease, a foundation in New York covered funeral expenses for the deceased.
Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made those funeral payments, the Milbank Memorial Fund, publicly apologized Saturday to descendants of the study’s victims. The move is rooted in America’s racial reckoning after George Floyd’s murder by police in 2020.
, were presented during a ceremony in Tuskegee at a gathering of children and other relatives of men who were part of the study. Koller said there’s no easy way to explain how its leaders in the 1930s decided to make the payments, or to justify what happened. Generations later, some Black people in the United States still fear government health care because of what’s called the “The upshot of this was real harm,” Koller told The Associated Press in an interview before the apology ceremony. “It was one more example of ways that men in the study were deceived.
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New York fund apologizes for role in Tuskegee syphilis studyFor almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease, a foundation in New York covered funeral expenses for the deceased. The payments were vital to survivors of the victims in a time and place ravaged by poverty and racism.
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New York fund apologizes for role in Tuskegee syphilis studyFifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made those funeral payments, the Milbank Memorial Fund, publicly apologized.
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New York fund apologizes for role in Tuskegee syphilis studyFifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made the funeral payments for victims, the Milbank Memorial Fund, publicly apologized.
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New York fund apologizes for role in Tuskegee syphilis studyGenerations later, some Black people in the United States still fear government health care because of what's called the “Tuskegee effect.”
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