In the film Ms. Evers' Boys, a group of doctors withholds penicillin from a group of black men who are suffering from syphilis. The movie itself depicted a true, historical (and quite controversial) study known as the Tuskegee Experiment, which took place in the times after the Civil Rights Movement. The doctors taking part in this research were trying to prove that the effects of syphilis were as severe in blacks as they were in whites in order to get more money for medication. They also wanted
In the film Ms. Evers' Boys, a group of doctors withholds penicillin from a group of black men who are suffering from syphilis. The movie itself depicted a true, historical (and quite controversial) study known as the Tuskegee Experiment, which took place in the times after the Civil Rights Movement. The doctors taking part in this research were trying to prove that the effects of syphilis were as severe in blacks as they were in whites in order to get more money for medication. They also wanted