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    The Tuskegee Airmen The museum that I chose to visit for this assignment is the Palm Springs Air Museum. I visited the museum on March 22nd with a few of my friends. I had arrived at the Museum with the intent that I was going to write about one of their many aircrafts. However‚ it didn’t end up being so simple‚ for I was delighted to come across an overwhelming array of options. Surprisingly‚ I was most interested by the historical displays rather than the aircraft. They provided an incredible amount

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    Tuskegee Machine Review

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    A Chief Lieutenant‚ of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi. By David H. Jackson Jr. Gainesville: University Press of Florida‚ 2002. Charles Banks‚ the subject of this appealing biography was a seemingly well-known Black leader‚ like such as Obama Baraka and Jessie Jackson. Banks status‚ demeanor‚ and power were unlimited‚ way beyond his hometown of Clarksdale and Mound Bayou‚ Mississippi all-black towns. Born in 1873‚ in Clarksdale‚ Mississippi‚ Banks spent most of his life in

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    Nathan Riley SCB 260 Prof: Olga Calderon‚ PhD 20 January 2016 Syphilis Syphilis is a systemic infectious disease that is the result of sexual or congenital transmission of a bacterium known as Treponema pallidum (Sutton‚ 2013). This bacteria‚ in spite of creating a strong immune response‚ is able to thrive and spread in the human host for many decades. Syphilis has been called “the great pretender‚” as its symptoms can look much like those of other infectious diseases and in the past‚ has been

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    In 1932 the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” began. The original intent was to learn the effects of syphilis on the body. The study began with 600 black men and was intended to last six months. Shamefully‚ the ethics of this experiment were nonexistent as misinformation and deception led the experiment to last a striking forty years. A primary object for the disgust surrounding the experiment was the lack of consent. Currently‚ the Institutional Review Board (IRB) requires

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    Tuskegee Airmen Roles

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    The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American military pilots who fought courageously during World War II. I never knew much about them until I started reading about them. As a matter of fact‚ I never even know they existed until I read about them. They have quite a story of trying to get into the air force. They had to fight through racial segregation and the Jim Crow laws to get where they wanted to be and serve‚ even though they kept getting rejected most of the time they tried to get it

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    Tuskegee Normal School

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    In the year of 1881‚ The Tuskegee Normal School was founded for colored teachers‚ which provided practical training for African Americans and helped them develop economic self-reliance through the mastery of manual trades and agricultural skills. Tuskegee’s mission has always been service to people‚ not education for its own sake. It was the only historically black college or university to be privately controlled in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. The university is home to over 3‚100 students from the U.S and

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    1932 and 1972‚ the United States Government engaged in a scientific study in which approximately 400 African-American men infected with syphilis were diagnosed but left untreated. The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis was led by the United States Public Health Service (PHS). It took advantage of uneducated‚ poor African-American farmers from Macon County‚ Alabama. The movie “Miss Evers’ Boys” reveals that the Tuskegee Study was conducted by a group of Southern doctors‚ and tells the story of

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    research‚ many of the findings and advances in medicine would not exist today. In the case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment‚ the USPHS conducted the experiment to increase in knowledge about the syphilis infection and ways to improve and provide treatment/cures for those who were infected. The intent was to determine if African Americans and Caucasian Americans shared similar effects to syphilis. Some researchers strongly believe that in order to obtain accurate and precise information‚ subjects

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    Syphilis has many other names such as syph‚ cupid’s disease‚ the pox‚ lues‚ and the French disease. It’s a sexually transmitted infection‚ a highly contagious stealthy infection that is caused by the bacterium Treponema palladium (a species of spirochaete bacterium with subspecies that cause treponemal diseases). Syphilis has been spread by humans all over the world since the year 1500‚it’s been around longer then any other sexually transmitted disease. This disease was rampant in Europe and some

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    Tuskegee Airmen Succeed‚ Despite Odds Against Them In the beginning of World War II‚ the U.S. government received an enormous amount of backlash for not allowing any African Americans into the elite status of the armed forces. This lead to the “Tuskegee Experiment” which was designed to see if African Americans were fit for war. Because of this experiment‚ this allowed “996 pilots and more than 15‚000 ground personnel” to serve on the “all-black units” that trained here at Moton Field (History

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