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Afflicting nearly 1 in 10 Americans, syphilis was ravaging the U.S. in the 1930s. Many doctors believed syphilis affected Black and white patients differently, and the Public Health Service launched an experiment to investigate, recruiting 600 Black men to take part. But the study was centered on a lie: the men wouldn’t actually receive treatment. Susan Reverby details the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Length: 05 min 18 sec
Educator: Susan M. Reverby
Director: Rikke Planeta, Philip Piaget
Narrator: Christina Greer
Storyboard Artist: Rikke Planeta, Philip Piaget
Animator: Philip Piaget
Art Director: Federico Pirovano
Producer: The Animation Workshop, Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Music: Stephen LaRosa
Sound Designer: Stephen LaRosa
Director of Production: Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Producer: Alex Rosenthal, Dan Kwartler
Script Editor: Iseult Gillespie
Production Coordinator: Abdallah Ewis
Fact-Checker: Jennifer Nam