How does the Tuskegee experiment reveal white attitudes toward blacks and black attitudes towards other blacks during the era?
What will be an ideal response?
Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the Tuskegee study as a racial experiment that violated state and federal laws for forty years.
2. Explain that the study reveals the racist and class-based attitudes towards poor blacks in particular.
3. Note that the hiring of a black nurse to gain the men's trust including her lying to the black sharecroppers, revealing the exploitation of working class blacks by other blacks for monetary gain and the intentional exploitation of the black victims by the medical community.
4. Conclude that the Tuskegee study reveals the manipulation of poor people of color by the medical community for gains primarily for the white community.
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What will be an ideal response?
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