who started the tuskegee syphilis study
As Allan Brandt suggests, the Tuskegee study must be understood as a result of enduring American racism. In 1932 the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) initiated an experiment in Macon County, Alabama, to determine the natural course of untreated, latent syphilis in black males.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (/tʌsˈkiːɡiː/) was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African-American men in Alabama.