Medical Apartheid: The Use of Blacks for Experiments - Part Iii

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"Those blacks who tried to flee the land were arrested, punished, and returned - or worse - just as their enslaved grandparents would have been," she wrote. "Beatings, lynchings, and murders that were never investigated enforced black serfdom....The only thing blacks had was a great deal of illness. But medical care did not exist for most of them."

"But the PHS lied to the subjects [a pool of infected black men], convincing them that they were being treated, not studied," [Harriet A. Washington] continued. "When the men died, the physician-researchers determined to autopsy them in order to trace precisely the ravages of the disease in their bodies."

By 1943 penicillin, called a "magic bullet," was being dispensed nationally as effective against syphilis, but it was not dispensed to blacks in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Why? U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran, cVhen presented with this antibiotic Holy Grail, opted for continued experimentation with the black men of Macon County," Washington reveals.

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Medical Apartheid: The Use of Blacks for Experiments - Part Iii

The stock market crashed in 1929 and America rushed into The Great Depression, which really lasted until World War II broke out. It was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program that began easing some economic and social pain from 1934 on ...

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