Thanks for your input, I was not sure how to answer the subject, I know there was book written about The Final Report of the "Tuskegee Syphillis Study", should be in any major library - I had got some informaiton on it from Keith Norman, Executive Director of the Alabama State Bar. You may be able to get some info from the Bar site, as a series of articles on Civil Rights were written by Fred Gray and are on the site. Was not the VA Hospital and John Andrew Hospital together in the beginning, then John Andrew Hospital became seperate and was a hospital for the public, although the VA still stood, I do believe it is still in service, at least not long ago - not sure but I think there were doctors 'hired' by the gov. to take the patients and they were not all located in Tuskegee. According to Mr. Gray in his series, "Then one day I woke up in 1972 and learned that in my own county of Macon, the federal government had financed a 40 year program in which it had used 623 African-American men, sone of whom had syphilis and some of whom did not, to study the course and effects of untreated syphillis-without the knowledge or consent of the men involved." In addition to getting a fair settlement (for those days), the survivors eventually received an apology from President Clinton in 1997. He also announced the formation of the Tuskegee Human and Civl Rights Multicultural Center - I think this is at what was once the Holiday Inn off I-85. delilah ----- Original Message ----- From: <AMcLane101@aol.com> To: <ALMACON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [ALMacon] Tuskegee Experiment > > In a message dated 3/5/04 3:50:02 AM, Page007655@cs.com writes: > > << I would love to come to Tuskegee and photograph the old hospital, town , > and anything else that pertains to the story of the Syphyllis experiment. I > would love to know where Nurse Rivers once lived. and if there is any kind of > grave site for some of the men. Is there a historical marker? I would very > much appreciate any info. I know there is alot of info on the subject, but very > few pictures. I would love to provide some. >> > > Jan - > > I am from Tuskegee, but not the generation involved in the Tuskegee > Experiment and I don't presently live in Macon Co., but I can tell you that there are > no markers, no memorials that I am aware of that denote the location where > Macon County's men were treated (subjected to experimentation). I believe many > may have been encouraged to come "in to town", at a facility put up just for > that purpose and since abandoned. Some may have been treated at the V.A. > Hospital, the government complex that was established just to treat "colored" > soldiers. It is still there, in Tuskegee, but is all but shut-down. I doubt that > subjects were treated at John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital, the facility at > Tuskegee (then) Institute, but it is possible. That building still stands, too, > but is not in use as a hospital facility. > > Atty. Fred Gray, who spearheaded the law suit against the govenment on behalf > of the subjects in the experiment, is still living and he resides in > Tuskegee. You might try and interview him. Sadly, his law firm burned down just a > couple of weeks ago, along with the office of the Tuskegee News, causing the > loss of many precious records. Since Mr. Gray's offices are temporarily located > elsewhere now, I don't know the address. But, I'd be willing to bet that if > you address a message to "Atty. Fred Gray, Sr., Tuskegee, AL 36083", he'd > probably get it. He would be the ultimate source of information on this subject. > > There are a couple of cemeteries in Tuskegee where many African Americans are > buried, Ashdale and Greenwood being the largest; there are smaller plots > throughout the county. You will find deceased persons from the Tuskegee > Experiment in nearly all of them, as there was no single place where they were laid > to rest. I read that the last of the survivors died just recently... > > Annette > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >