The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks with Syphilis, conducted in 1932, involved 412 men infected with syphilis who received fake treatment and placebos instead of actual medication. The study, which aimed to compare black and white reactions to the disease, was only discontinued 40 years later after a Senate investigation. The story is told from the perspective of Nurse Eunice Evers, who consoled the affected men, including her friends, while aware of the lack of treatment. The movie's name, "Miss Evers' Boys", comes from a group of performers who named their act after her, all of whom had the disease.
Miss Evers' Boys
A disturbing chapter in American history, the 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment revealed the U.S. Government's appalling decision to withhold treatment from hundreds of African American men, condemning them to suffer and die from syphilis despite a known cure.
