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Vaccine skepticism lurks in town famous for syphilis study

Lucenia Dunn spent the early days of the coronavirus pandemic encouraging people to wear masks and keep a safe distance from each other in Tuskegee, a mostly Black city where the government once used unsuspecting African American men as guinea pigs in a study of a sexually transmitted disease.Now, the onetime mayor of the town immortalized as the home of the infamous “Tuskegee syphilis study”