You will find many Student and Greek organizations here that will fit your personality. Tuskegee is Ranked 3 among U. The study took place in Macon County, Alabama, the county seat of Tuskegee referred to as the "Black Belt" because of its rich soil and vast number of black sharecroppers who were the economic backbone of the region. The research itself took place on the campus of Tuskegee Institute. The intent of the study was to record the natural history of syphilis in Black people.
Researchers told the men participating in the study that they were to be treated for "bad blood. A total of men were enrolled in the study. Of this group , who had syphilis were a part of the experimental group and were control subjects. Most of the men were poor and illiterate sharecroppers from the county.
The men were offered what most Negroes could only dream of in terms of medical care and survivors insurance. They were enticed and enrolled in the study with incentives including: medical exams, rides to and from the clinics, meals on examination days, free treatment for minor ailments and guarantees that provisions would be made after their deaths in terms of burial stipends paid to their survivors.
There were no proven treatments for syphilis when the study began. When penicillin became the standard treatment for the disease in the medicine was withheld as a part of the treatment for both the experimental group and control group.
On July 25, Jean Heller of the Associated Press broke the story that appeared simultaneously both in New York and Washington, that there had been a year nontherapeutic experiment called "a study" on the effects of untreated syphilis on Black men in the rural south. Between the start of the study in and , the date when penicillin was determined as a cure for the disease, dozens of men had died and their wives, children and untold number of others had been infected.
