Dorothy Counts-Scoggins integrated Charlotte public schools as a teenager in 1957. Guest host Gwendolyn Glenn from WFAE sits down with Scoggins to talk about her experiences now 65 years ago.
Heller, who now lives in Southport near Wilmington, was the only woman on a small Associated Press special assignment team. In 1972, she broke the news of how the U.S. government denied medical treatment to hundreds of Alabama Black men that they knew to have syphilis.
Reporter Jean Heller recalls how she broke the story of the Tuskegee syphilis study 50 years ago wfae.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wfae.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.