To explain, back in the 1950 's blacks were tested on by scientists in many experiments that were very common back then. In fact, those experiments that were being conducted on the blacks were illegal and some government officials pretended that they did not know about these experiments. There was one experiment that doctors tested on blacks it was known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study some experts thought that these tests were inhuman just like Harriet A. Washington says, "the long, unhappy history of medical research with black Americans" (Grady). What Harriet was trying to say was that the Tuskegee syphilis study was one of worst and longest tests done to black Americans. In this test doctors would infect 400 black male patients without them knowing, with the syphilis disease in the year 1932. They were left untreated for 40 years just "so government doctors could study the course of the disease" (Grady). This is just one of many experiments conducted on black Americans back in the early 1900 's and the late 1800
To explain, back in the 1950 's blacks were tested on by scientists in many experiments that were very common back then. In fact, those experiments that were being conducted on the blacks were illegal and some government officials pretended that they did not know about these experiments. There was one experiment that doctors tested on blacks it was known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study some experts thought that these tests were inhuman just like Harriet A. Washington says, "the long, unhappy history of medical research with black Americans" (Grady). What Harriet was trying to say was that the Tuskegee syphilis study was one of worst and longest tests done to black Americans. In this test doctors would infect 400 black male patients without them knowing, with the syphilis disease in the year 1932. They were left untreated for 40 years just "so government doctors could study the course of the disease" (Grady). This is just one of many experiments conducted on black Americans back in the early 1900 's and the late 1800