While the Tuskegee Experiment gets a lot of credit for how Blacks were mistreated in healthcare, it was the Jim Crow South that laid the foundation for disrespecting treatment of Blacks by healthcare providers. Those were challenging times when the "Negro" was expected to respected Whites while being disrespected. This disrespect included not looking a White person directly in the eye, walking on opposite sides of the street from White people, and having separate and dirty