A New York-based philanthropy is publicly apologizing for its role in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study
FILE - President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, back, help Herman Shaw, 94, a Tuskegee Syphilis Study victim, during a news conference on May 16, 1997. Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public in 1972 and halted, Manhattan-based philanthropy organization Milbank Memorial Fund is publicly apologizing for its role in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made those funeral payments, the Milbank Memorial Fund, is publicly apologizing to the descendants for its role. The move is rooted in America's racial reckoning after George Floyd's murder by police in 2020.Voices of our Fathers Legacy Foundation
Endowed in 1905 by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, part of a wealthy and well-connected New York family, the fund was one of the nation's first private foundations. The nonprofit philanthropy had some $90 million in assets in 2019, according to tax records, and an office on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. With an early focus on child welfare and public health, today it concentrates on health policy at the state level.
Lillie Tyson Head's late father Freddie Lee Tyson was part of the study. She's now president of the Voices of our Fathers group. She called the apology"a wonderful gesture and a wonderful thing" even if it comes 25 years after the U.S. government“It’s really something that could be used as an example of how apologies can be powerful in making reparations and restorative justice be real,” said Head.
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