A New York fund that appeared to be covering funeral expenses for victims of the Tuskegee experiment proved to be another example of deceit in the racist study that targeted Black men.
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. The payments were vital to survivors of the victims in a time and place ravaged by poverty and racism.
Fifty years after the study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made funeral payments for the men who died publicly apologized to descendants of the study's victims.
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