Miss Evers's Boys

Miss Evers’s Boys was a play about the Tuskegee Experiments. It was a sad account of how the American government used black men as guinea pigs for the syphilis disease study. Unfortunately, these men went untreated for several years, but were told they were being given cures. When a cure for the disease, penicillin, came out, they still were not allowed to be treated. The white doctor insisted that they needed to complete the study, so other lives could be saved. However, there really was no need to kill these men. White society did not want to sacrifice its own members, but chose to kill of black men for a disease that affected both races equally. America segregated blacks anywhere they could, from something as simple as a water fountain to something as major as a medical problem. Miss Evers was put in a tough situation. She had to choose between her love of nursing and her love of those men. In the end, she chose her love of nursing. I don’t think Miss Evers truly loved those men because she would have done anything to get those men some penicillin. Miss Evers had a tough decision to make, and I think she chose the wrong one. She helped contribute to the death of those men by not giving them proper treatment. Caleb was wise to leave and seek the help, but most of the others did not have the same fortune. Miss Evers’s waited too long to give them the cure. Miss Evers’s Boys showed what happened to the men in the Tuskegee Experiments.