Editing Tuskegee Syphilis Study (section)

=== Study participants ===

The five survivors who attended the White House ceremony in 1997 were Charlie Pollard, Herman Shaw, Carter Howard, Fred Simmons, and Frederick Moss. The remaining three survivors had family members attend the ceremony in their name. Sam Doner was represented by his daughter, Gwendolyn Cox; Ernest Hendon by his brother, North Hendon; and George Key by his grandson, Christopher Monroe.<ref name="Banisky-1997" /> The last man who was a participant in the study died in 2004.

Charlie Pollard appealed to civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, who also attended the White House ceremony, for help when he learned the true nature of the study he had been participating in for years. In 1973, ''Pollard v. United States'' resulted in a $10 million settlement.<ref name="Reverby-2009" />

Another participant of the study was Freddie Lee Tyson, a sharecropper who helped build [[Moton Field]], where the legendary "[[Tuskegee Airmen]]" learned to fly during World War II.<ref name="Associated Press-2017" />