I went to see the play Miss Evers’ Boys on October 6, 2011. I did not know what to expect from this play but it was great. It made me cry and laugh at the same time. The story is about the Tuskegee Experiment which was an experiment on the effects of syphilis on African American men. When this play first started I thought the goal was to solve for the syphilis but instead this men were actually being used as an experiment. Towards the end of this movie I was upset really how the government allowed this man to be used as experimental toys and not as humans. The total man in this experiment was 399 men between the ages of 21 to 60 that were told that they were being treated for bad blood. Instead the government was just watching the different side effects of syphilis. The thing that really surprised me was when I found out the government would not allow this men to receive the treatment for syphilis because they was a part of this experiment. In my eyes these man where violated because they believed this people where there to help them but instead it was all private gains.
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