Tuskegee Syphilis Study The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is a major stain in the history of the United States of America. It epitomizes the treatment of African Americans in this country. The United States Public Health Service, the United States government, conducted this heinous act themselves. This shows what was happening to African Americans even as late as the 20th Century. For our own government to run this experiment helps feed the distrust by black Americans of the system (Government). Beginning in 1932, the United States Public Health Service worked in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute to study the natural progression of syphilis. They hoped the study would justify the treatment programs for African Americans. The name of the study was the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.” This study would go on to last forty years. It was officially ended in 1972. The study included 600 black men. Only 399 actually had the disease. Contrary to popular belief, these men were not injected with the disease. They already contracted the syphilis bacteria in their daily lives. Of the 600 black men, 201 did not have the syphilis bacteria. This case was a classic discrimination case. The United States Public Health Services were blatantly dishonest with the subjects whom were all of minority descent. Researchers told the black men that they were being treated for bad blood, a condition that does not and has never existed. Bad blood was a local term used to describe several other unrelated aliments. The government enticed these subjects with promises of food, healthcare, and burial insurance. That burial insurance turned out being, “We will take the syphilis corpse, study it, and put it on display for researchers.” I feel that this study would have continued if the Associated Press would have uncovered the scheme and publicized it nationwide