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Senator Rouse Highlights Tuskegee Airmen and Tuskegee Experiment During Black History Observance
Summary
During a personal-privilege statement, the junior senator from Virginia Beach recalled the Tuskegee Airmen's service and the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, urging full remembrance of both triumph and injustice in Black history.
Senator Rouse, the junior senator from Virginia Beach, used a personal-privilege time on Feb. 5 to mark Black History Month by contrasting two historical episodes tied to Tuskegee, Alabama: the wartime service of the Tuskegee Airmen and the U.S. Public Health Service's Tuskegee syphilis study.
"These brave men...completed over 15,000 combat missions," Rouse said of the Tuskegee Airmen,…
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