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A man receives an injection during the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in the 1930s. The U.S. Public Health Service recruited hundreds of rural Black men in 1932 in Tuskegee, Ala. They would offered free meals and checkups, but never explained that participants would be human subjects in a study designed to withhold medical treatment.