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On this day in history: July 24, 1972 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Exposed by Washington Star Newspaper On July 24, 1972, the Washington Star newspaper in Washington, D.C., published an article exposing details of an ongoing syphilis experiment that withheld diagnosis information and treatment from Black men in Alabama in order to study the effects of the disease. The article incited public outrage over the unethical treatment of participants, leading to the experiment’s termination later that year.