Welcome back Law Ghost friends to episode 2. This episode Brenna will tell Dani about the 1932 Tuskegee "study" and the negative outcomes that still resonates today for the black community.
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Sources used in this episode:
https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/textonly/New/Remarks/Fri/19970516-898.html
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/syphilis/symptoms-causes/syc-20351756
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/case-closed-columbus/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/African-American/African-American-life-during-the-Great-Depression-and-the-New-Deal
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-experimentation-america-tuskegee-study
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/25/tuskegee-syphilis-study-its-repercussions-still-felt-today/506507001/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/tuskegee-study-research-black-experiences/487646/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/us/black-americans-vaccine-tuskegee.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/14/us/vaccine-race-gap.html
https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-tuskegee-syphilis-experiment/#:~:text=After%20the%20study%20was%20exposed,and%20injuries%20the%20experiment%20caused.
Theme music: Nightmare by Alexander Nakarada
From Complete Discography (Creative Commons BY 4.0), released October 10, 2017
https://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com/track/nightmare-2