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In 1932 Macon County, Alabama, the federal government launched into a medical study called The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks with Syphilis. The study selected 412 men infected with the disease and faked long term treatment, while really only giving them placebos and liniments. The premise of the action was to determine if blacks reacted similar to whites to the overall effects of the disease. The experiment was only discontinued 40 years later when a Senate investigation was initiated. At that time, only 127 of the original study group were left alive. The story is told from the point of view of Nurse Eunice Evers, who was well aware of the lack of treatment being offered, but felt her role was to console the involved men, many of whom were her direct friends. In fact, the movies name comes from the fact that a performing dancer and three musicians named their act for her - "Miss Evers Boys". All had the disease. A romance with one goes unrequited even after he joins the Army during World War II and is treated and cured by penicillin. As the result of the Senate investigation, the medical experimentation on humans has been curbed. The survivors of the study did receive treatment and financial compensation after the Senate investigation.
When nurse Eunice Evers is chosen to facilitate a program intended to curb syphilis rates among African Americans in rural Alabama, she is gratified to be able to serve her community. Over time, however, the study becomes twisted into a shocking human experiment in which patients are systematically denied much-needed medicine. Decades after the fact, Evers is called before a Senate committee to testify as to what really happened during the infamous "Tuskegee Study."
Alfre Woodard
Eunice Evers, R.N.
Laurence Fishburne
Caleb Humphries
Craig Sheffer
Dr. Douglas
Joe Morton
Dr. Sam Brodus
Obba Babatundé
Willie Johnson
Von Coulter
Hodman Bryan
Thom Gossom Jr.
Ben Washington
Ossie Davis
Mr. Evers
E.G. Marshall
The Senate Chairman
Robert Benedetti
Senator
Peter Stelzer
Senator
Donzaleigh Abernathy
Nurse Betty
Tommy Cresswell
Dr. Larkin
Judson Vaughn
Dr. Davis
Larry Black
Dr. Hamilton
Bill Coates
Old Man
Gerald F. Brown
Announcer
Joan Glover
Clinic Nurse
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