New York fund to publicly apologize for its role in Tuskegee syphilis study
by Associated Press in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#608DX)
Milbank Memorial Fund, which covered funeral expenses, to say sorry 50 years after study revealed and halted
Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed and halted, an organization that made funeral payments which facilitated the study, the Milbank Memorial Fund, will say sorry in public.
For almost 40 years, government researchers let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease. The fund in New York covered funeral expenses.
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