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The_Edwards_Notebook-The_Tuskeege_Experiment060126 · The Ron Edwards American Experience V2

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  Speaker 1: Black History Monk has evolved into focusing mostly on females,
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  Speaker 1: so I will follow suit. Lolin or Ron Edwards on
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  Speaker 1: today's page from the Everards Nobook. Unice Berdell Rivers was
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  Speaker 1: born in eighteen ninety nine in Tuskegee, Alabama's farming community.
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  Speaker 1: She was one of three girls raised by loving parents
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  Speaker 1: who encouraged them to do well in school, graduate from college,
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  Speaker 1: and escape the brutality of life in the South. Eunice
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  Speaker 1: and her two sisters excelled. Eunice Rivers became a nurse
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty two. She also became a trusted health
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  Speaker 1: authority for Black American families in time. Eunus Rivers was
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  Speaker 1: so trusted by the Tuskegee black community she eventually joined
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  Speaker 1: forces with racist white medical doctors and the famous Tuskegee
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  Speaker 1: experiments that used black men as tortured human guinea pigs.
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  Speaker 1: Her trusted position in and around the rural black farming
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  Speaker 1: community enabled her to recruit six hundred black men to
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  Speaker 1: participate in the agonizing study if they had syphilis. In return,
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  Speaker 1: the men received pre medical care. The men were never
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  Speaker 1: ever given the medical treatment that could have cured them
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  Speaker 1: of the syphilis. As a result, they died agonizing deaths,
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  Speaker 1: while Eunus Rivers and her white medical superiors conducted the
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  Speaker 1: Duskegee Experiments until nineteen seventy two. I'm ron Edwitch.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Edwards, the new Voice of America.