Miss Ever's Boys

 I went to go see Miss Ever’s Boys this week. Miss Ever Boy’s was a great depiction of the Tuskegee Experiment. In this experiment, African American sharecroppers were subject to decades of abuse from the U.S Public Health Service. Some more than four hundred men suffered the effects of syphilis for the health service’s experimental purposes. The term, “Bad Blood” was used to diagnose those men with the disease. The participants were manipulated with the promise of free medical care, meals, and free burial insurance. Even after the cure for the disease was discovered these men were never treated.

In the play, Miss Ever’s tells men, they could get tested for bad blood. Caleb Humphries, Ben Washington, and Willie Johnson, were three entertainers, with dreams of making it into the prestigious Cotton Club before the experiments had began, but by the end of the experiment they were left mentally ill, crippled, and dead. To recognize them for years and years of participation they all received a certificate from the health services. Despite Miss Ever’s close relationship with the men, and the desire to stop aiding the experiment, she continued to abuse the men with the promise of a higher position. This to me made me question her integrity. How could she continue to install false hope into these men. Overall, the play was every good and I'm glad I went to go see it.