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In this interactive online experience, teens will meet with activists from Alabama to take an honest look at the history of systemic racism in the health care system. Join us to learn about the victims of human experimentation and engage in meaningful dialogue with Lillie Tyson, head of the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation, and Michelle Browder of the Mothers of Gynecology Movement.
Free, but registration is required.
Presented by The Workers Circle and JTS’s List College.
The Mothers of Gynecology
Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey were enslaved women from plantations in and around Montgomery, Alabama. With neither consent nor anesthesia, they were experimented on by Dr. J. Marion Sims in the 1840s. After publishing the results of his "success," Sims became known as the Father of Gynecology. By contrast, Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy fell into history. They changed the world, only to be forgotten by it.
Artist and Activist Michelle Browder is working on a 15-foot public monument to honor these women, tell their story, and shine a light on ongoing racial disparities in the healthcare industry today. She is the founder of I Am More Than, a civil rights tour company and youth social enterprise, and creator of the Black Lives Matter mural in the center of what was once a slave market in downtown Montgomery, Alabama.
Voices for Our Fathers
Between 1932 and 1972, United States Public Health Service, in trying to learn more about syphilis, withheld adequate treatment from a group of over 600 black men who had the disease. This unethical 40 year-long study caused needless pain and suffering for these men and their loved ones
Mrs. Lillie Tyson Head is the daughter of Freddie Lee Tyson, one of the African American men who were victimized and unethically treated by the United States Public Health Service Syphilis Study (USPHSS) and the daughter of Johnnie Mae Neal Tyson.
Mrs. Head is President of Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation (VFOFLF) a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the history of USPHSSS and honoring the legacies of the 623 men in the study while advocating for ethical treatment in health care and social justice. Under her leadership the Foundation has awarded 19 scholarship to descendants, interviewed 38 descendants for the Research Project; The Untold Stories, collaborated with Tuskegee University Department of Architecture to design a Memorial and Inspiration Garden, partnered with the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University, and participated in numerous interviews over the past year promoting the COVID-19 vaccine to the African American Community.
T H A N K Y O U
Thank you for registering. An email is on the way with information on how you can access the event. We look forward to you joining us on Wednesday, May 26 at 7:30 PM ET. We If you have any questions, please call 212.889.6800 or email info@circle.org