On this day in 1972, the U.S. Government formally admitted to carrying out the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the African American Male. This study injected syphilis into these men in order to observe the course of untreated disease; the men were never told what was being injected into them. The study ran from 1932 and 1972.
General Colin Powell, at the time the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dedicated a monument to the Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on this day in 1992.
Emmett Till was born on this day in 1941 in Chicago. On a trip visiting family in Mississippi, he was murdered by two White men for daring to speak to a White woman. He was 14 years old. His murder was a catalyst for the Modern Civil Rights Movement.
On this day in 1900, at the close of the Pan African Congress, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois made his famous prescription “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line”. It was in a speech, titled “To the Nations of the World” that advocated for the coming together of all Africans around the world to overthrow colonialism, imperialism and second-class citizenship. It was a strong message to the European nations and the United States who controlled these colonies.
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