Alfre Woodard
Eunice Evers
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- The shocking true story of the federal government's secret medical experiment on southern blacks in the 1930s. Loyal, devoted nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with doctors on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama.
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Miss Evers' Boys is an American made-for-television drama starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne that first aired on February 22, 1997, and is based on the true story of the four-decade-long Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
- Historical Drama
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The shocking true story of the federal government's secret medical experiment on southern blacks in the 1930s. Loyal, devoted nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with doctors on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama.
Feb 22, 1997 · Miss Evers' Boys: Directed by Joseph Sargent. With Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Joe Morton. The true story of the U.S. Government's 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.
- (1.4K)
- Drama, War
- Joseph Sargent
- 1997-02-22
When nurse Eunice Evers (Alfre Woodard) is chosen to facilitate a program intended to curb syphilis rates among African Americans in rural Alabama, she is gratified to be able to serve her...
- (486)
- Joseph Sargent
- PG
- Alfre Woodard
Feb 16, 1997 · The men were also misled by an industrious, devoted black nurse known in the movie as Miss Evers. Much of the utter cruelty of the study is forcefully depicted in the film.
Summary. The aged, black nurse, Eunice Evers (Alfre Woodward), testifies before the 1973 Senate hearings into the Tuskegee study. Through a series of lengthy flashbacks, her testimony evokes the 1932 origin and four-decade course of a research experiment to study but not treat syphilis in the black men of Macon County, Alabama.
Drama about the controversial Tuskegee, Alabama, syphilis experiments of the 1930s and 1940s, performed on unknowing black men. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated play by David Feldshuh.
