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Miss Evers' Boys is an American made-for-television drama starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne that first aired on February 22, 1997, and is based on the true story of the four-decade-long Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Feb 22, 1997 · A drama based on the true story of a government study that infected 412 black men with syphilis and denied them treatment for 40 years. The film follows the nurse Eunice Evers, who cared for the patients and witnessed their suffering and death.
The true story of the U.S. Government's 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed. In 1932 Macon County, Alabama, the federal government launched into a medical study called The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks with Syphilis.
Feb 16, 1997 · The men were also misled by an industrious, devoted black nurse known in the movie as Miss Evers. Much of the utter cruelty of the study is forcefully depicted in the film.
Miss Evers' Boys. 1997 · 1 hr 58 min. PG. Drama · War. Alfre Woodard’s Emmy-winning turn as a nurse involved in a government plan to treat syphilis-infected Black men with placebos and not penicillin. Subtitles: English. Starring: Alfre Woodard Laurence Fishburne Ossie Davis Joe Morton Obba Babatundé. Directed by: Joseph Sargent.
Emmy-winning story of a 1930s experiment in which the U.S. government withheld treatment from African American syphilis patients. ...more.
Watch Miss Evers' Boys and other popular TV shows and movies including new releases, classics, Hulu Originals, and more. It’s all on Hulu. Emmy®-winning story of a 1930s experiment in which the U.S. government withheld treatment from African American syphilis patients.
