Wellfleet Preservation Hall

The Hall is honored to welcome actress Alfre Woodard and medical historian Susan M. Reverby on Monday, June 24th at 7 pm to discuss the fictional and real moral dilemmas of Nurse Eunice Rivers. Rivers was the go-between for the white U.S. government researchers and the African American men who were the unwitting participants in the forty-year infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-72), where the men were left untreated yet lied to about their disease, its dangers, and their care.

Woodard starred in "Miss Evers' Boys," the 1997 HBO fictionalization of the study. Reverby is the prize winning historian of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy (2009) where she argued Rivers may actually have surreptitiously helped men out of the study.

Clips from the film will be shown, along with Reverby’s Ted Ed talk. A conversation and discussion with Woodard, Reverby and the audience will immediately follow.

Doors open at 6 pm for light bites and cash bar. The event will be held downstairs in Geiger Hall and begins at 7pm.