Witness History: Archive 2013 - The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

For nearly 40 years, the US government conducted an experiment on a group of African-American men without their knowledge - to see what would happen if their syphilis was left untreated.

Photo: US National Archive.

Published on Monday, 14th January 2013.

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