Exhibit on Tuskegee Airmen Opens in Fort Worth

Moton Field Tuskegee Airmen Museum

New England Air Museum celebrates Tuskegee Airmen this Black History Month

🥺Tuskegee syphilis experiment In one of the darkest chapters in American medical history, the U.S. government conducted the **Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment**, a cruel and inhumane study on 600 African American men. These men were falsely told they were receiving treatment for syphilis, but in reality, they were being observed to study how the disease progressed without care. The experiment lasted for 40 years, from 1932 to 1972, during which over 500 of them died, many went blind, and several we