In many Black communities, “Tuskegee” quickly became synonymous with exploitation and racist mistreatment by the medical establishment—even if details of the study itself were vague. And some came to believe the false rumor that the government had actually given the men syphilis, a charge ...
McMullen, the UCSF internal medicine professor, said her medical education focused on the most well-known examples of racism and mistreatment in medicine — such as the Tuskegee syphilis experiments on Black men or the story of Henrietta Lacks’ cell line — but did not involve a deeper explora...
After a difficult year in Manhattan, He first traveled to Booker T.Washington’s Tuskegee Institute with the expectation that he could find support for his fledgling United Negro Improvement Association ( U.N.I.A). It was Booker T.Washington’s autobiography Up From Slavery that had first insp...
After a difficult year in Manhattan, He first traveled to Booker T.Washington’s Tuskegee Institute with the expectation that he could find support for his fledgling United Negro Improvement Association ( U.N.I.A). It was Booker T.Washington’s autobiography Up From Slavery that had first insp...
Wade. This study finds that the ruling in Dobbs weakened the 14th Amendment by allowing parameters to be placed on substantive due process. Though the question before the Court was the constitutionality of Mississippi’s abortion law, the implications of weakening the 14th Amendment are that it ...
Racism, poverty, and exposure to anti-Black racism forced the Black mothers in our study to use education as the primary site to enlarge their children’s opportunities and prepare them for success. Women unanimously agreed that education was central to their children’s ability to achieve success...
Outside the courtroom, in the thousands of recorded lynchings of black men documented by the Tuskegee Institute, about 1 in 4 were triggered by the alleged sexual assault of a white woman. (In this context, Robert Gibson wrote in The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United ...