Passing Parade: The kindness of government strangers

Nelson A. Pryor: Guest Columnist The significance of one. Yes, Peter Buxtun should be one of the remembered. It was his information about a 40-year government experiment that left hundreds of poor Black men ill served. In 1972, his information exposed a 40-year cover-up of a Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Deal originated experiment, to track the effects of syphilis in Black men in Alabama. Uninformed participants The men in the experiment were neither told they had the disease nor offered t