There once was time when segregation amongst people was a normal occurrence in daily life. The color of your skin once determined what bathroom you went to, what water foundation you drank from, the quality of education you would receive and how much health care you would get. You would think the unfair treatment based on skin color stopped at just segregation but, unfortunately that’s not the case. The Tuskegee syphilis experiment was a study conducted by the U.S health public service starting in the year 1932 and concluding in 1972. The whole focus of this study was to observe the effects of untreated syphilis over a period of time. Hundreds of African American men from Macon County, Alabama participated in hopes that they would be treated for their “bad blood” but had were ultimately not aware that they weren’t going to receive treatment. One of the main purposes of this experiment was to see if syphilis was the same in black and white people; it was the belief that syphilis in blacks was not a deadly disease (deadly deception). It was also believed that they had smaller brains so they couldn’t control their lust which caused them to be immoral. Deadly deception and Miss Evers’ boys are two pieces of…show more content… In this movie it explains how in the beginning the goal was to treat people suffering with the disease. As time went on the intentions eventually changed and the men were being withheld from treatment and used as lab rats to conduct an experiment. Miss Evers knew that the men weren’t going to receive treatment but continued to keep it a secret a anyways in hopes that treatment would come eventually. In this movie we see the struggles the men in trial faced but we also see the struggles Miss Evers endured hiding a secret but also wanting a change. In addition this movie shows the corruption of the science
