Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Tuskegee Institute Silver Anniversary Lecture was an event at Carnegie Hall on January 23, 1906, to support the education of African Americans in the South. It involved many prominent members of New York society, with speakers including Booker T. Washington, Mark Twain, Joseph Hodges Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden.
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment, one of the most infamous biomedical research studies in U.S. history, [10] began while Moton headed Tuskegee Institute. A clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Macon County, Alabama, by the U.S. Public Health Service, it became notorious for ethical issues, as it failed to tell participants their diagnosis and did not treat them, even after ...
As the newly hired principal in Tuskegee, Booker T. Washington began classes for his new school in a rundown church and shanty. The following year (1882), he purchased a former plantation of 100 acres in size. In 1973 the Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, did an oral history interview with Annie Lou "Bama" Miller.
EDITOR’S NOTE: On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment The post AP exposes the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The 50th ...
Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who exposed the US government’s involvement in the Tuskegee syphilis study, has died. Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86 Skip ...
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male [1] (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis.
The unethical Tuskegee Syphilis Study ended 50 years ago. A new public health study from Auburn and Tulane examines its lasting impact.
Tuskegee & Its People is a 1905 book edited by American educator Booker T Washington. Its full title is Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements. It has been printed in various editions and is available for study online via Project Gutenberg. [1] The book was instrumental in promoting the cause of the Tuskegee Institute, and ...