Miss Evers' Boys

Miss Evers' Boys was based on the true story of the Tuskegee Experiment and the men involved. Miss Eunice Evers was a nurse that was directly responsible for the care of several African American men in Macon County, Alabama. These men had "bad blood" or syphilis. At the time there was no cure for syphilis and these men  did not receive effective treatment for the sake of the government's research on the effects of syphilis. This play gave insight on the actual live of these men as they suffered through this debilitating disease. I really enjoyed this play. I did not know very much about what happened during the Tuskegee experiment and I felt that this was a very honest view of what happened and how the men were mistreated. It was very enlightening and gave a very personal view of  this disease and its true implications before there was an effective treatment. It also detailed a very important view on how it effected the overall black community and how they viewed medicine. In my opinion, some of the black communities' apprehension against medicine came from the results of this experiment.