The apology and an accompanying monetary donation to a descendants' group, the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation, were presented during a ceremony in Tuskegee.
When South African jurist Navi Pillay won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, a large proportion of the human rights community happened to be gathered at a conference at the Nuremberg Court in Germany, where the landmark trial of Nazi leaders almost 80 years ago laid the foundations for modern international law.