Underground Railroad Memorial Monument Detroit Windsor
International Gateway to Freedom
Dr. David Milburn, Astronaut Ed Dwight
Astronaut Ed Dwight: Flight Surgeon Dr. Lewis Milburn was deputy director of Aerospace Medicine (Astronaut Dr. Mae C. Jemison NASA Medical Science tradition) when Dwight became the first Black astronaut trainee at N.A.S.A. during the John F. Kennedy Presidency. A generation later, Dr. David Milburn and Sculptor Ed Dwight standing in front of Dwight’s “magnum opus” Underground Railroad Memorial Monument on Detroit’s riverfront Hart Plaza. Before a capacity crowd of Underground Railroad descendants participating in the Underground Railroad Families Historical Society’s “Memorial Ceremony”, dignitaries (Mayor Dennis Archer, Aretha Franklin) and descendants placed memorial wreaths of remembrance (Anniversary Celebration) at the riverfront Detroit- Windsor Underground Railroad Memorial Monuments.After the 1993 completion of Dwight’s Underground Railroad Battle Creek Memorial,Dr.David Milburn was instrumental in facilitating the concept of Detroit Windsor riverfront Memorial Monuments.
Windsor Ontario Tower of Freedom
Underground Railroad Descendants sisters Windsorites Marie Thompson-McCurdy (Dr. George W.F McCurdy) and Ada Thompson Milburn (Dr. Lewis H. Milburn) review Windsor Ontario Tower of Freedom Underground Railroad Monument.
Due to the inherent human quest for freedom from 1680 to 1840 over 100,000 escaped enslavement.
Air Cadet Lewis Hugh Milburn Air Marshal William Avery Bishop
Dr. Lewis H. Milburn Patterson Collegiate Institute Windsor Ontario - Air Cadet of Canada Windsor Sqaudron conversing with his mentor Air Marshal William "Billy" Bishop-Victoria Cross.
Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott, Dr. Lewis Milburn, Air Marshal William "Billy" Bishop
The legendary Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott became the medical template for doctors of colour. Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott first Black Canadian to graduate from Medical School, University of Toronto 1861. Dr. Lewis H. Milburn McGill University Bachelor of Science and first Black Canadian to graduate from Western’s Medical School, 1957. On the advice of his mentor Air Marshal William “Billy” Bishop Dr. Lewis Milburn became the first Black Canadian Flight Surgeon Ada Thompson-Milburn, Dr. Lewis H. Milburn, Lewis B. Milburn, and Geneva Cross- Milburn.
Flight Surgeon Dr. Lewis H. Milburn Director of the 869th Medical Aero Medical Service and staff treating wounded patients.
Deputy Director Aero Space Medicine Dr. Lewis Milburn representing the U.S. Air Force at the International European Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine in Rome. During his medical career,Dr.Lewis Milburn received the Medical Humanitarian Medal from Secretary of State Dean Rusk and President John F. Kennedy for his humanitarian work in Africa.
Dr. Lewis H. Milburn
Underground Railroad Families
First Baptist Church Chatham-Kent
Buxton National Historic Site and Museum,North Buxton,Ontario
Honouree late Dr. Lewis Milburn standing in front of First Baptist Church. Dr. Milburn’s ancestors provided a protected sanctuary in Chatham, Ontario for a meeting of abolitionists including Frederick Douglass and John Brown this historical meeting helped precipitate the Civil War and Emancipation. Dr. Milburn toured Buxton National Historic Site Museum,attended several Buxton Labour Day (Underground Railroad Families) Homecomings.
"Milburn Family"
The Milburn Family underground railroad descendants, whose ancestors fought alongside Chief Tecumseh in the War of 1812 and provided a protected sanctuary for the meeting of Frederick Douglass and John Brown at First Baptist Church Chatham, Ontario. This historic meeting helped precipitate the Civil War and Emancipation.
North Star Abolitionists Underground Railroad Domains
Prince Albert – President of Society for the Extinction of Slavery, Lt. Governor James Graves Simcoe Toronto (Ontario Black History Society-founder Dr. Daniel G Hill, Dr. Douglas and Beverley Salmon, Warren G. Salmon, Dr. John Douglas Salmon Jr. of Toronto, Dr. David Bell, Natasha Henry, Channon Oyeniran, Nikki Clarke) Toronto Canada, Adrienne Shadd, Dr. Afua Cooper, and Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost “The Underground Railroad Next Stop Toronto.” Prince Hall Masons St. Paul’s A.M.E. Church Hamilton Ontario, Elgin Settlement and Buxton Mission, Bryan and Shannon Prince-historian and curator Buxton National Historic Site and Museum, Buxton “Labour Day Weekend Homecoming” Underground Railroad Families annual Family Reunions, Dr. Bryan and Anna Walls-John Freeman Walls Historic Site, and Underground Railroad Museum Emeryville, Rev. Josiah Henson House Dresden Ontario, Harriet Tubman Salem Chapel B.M.E. Church St. Catharines, University of Windsor Library Underground Railroad, Windsor Dr. Howard McCurdy – Prime Minister Nelson Mandela South Africa, Conservative delegate Geneva Cross Milburn – Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, Judge Pierre – Louis Panet Montreal Quebec, Montreal-Kathy Grant Legacy Voices, Toronto Karolyn Smardz Frost, Ontario Black History Society – Pres. Natasha Henry Toronto Canada, Dr. Lewis H. Milburn, Dr. Howard D. McCurdy, Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, New Brunswick (lawyer Abraham B. Walker, Underground Railroad route Tomlinson Lake, James Arthur Talbot – Elm Hill in Hampstead Parish, Willow Grove Baptist Church, Cornelius Sparrow of Sainte John-Lena O’Ree, New Brunswick Thomas Peters amongst nationhood founders of Sierra Leone Africa), Charlottetown (The Bog) Prince Edward Island, Alberta/Saskatchewan Black Settlers (BSAS) Heritage (ranchers John and Mildred Ware, Dr. Alfred Schmitz Shadd, lawyer Violet King – Amber Valley, Calgary engineer Oliver Bowen, Vimetta Anderson, Eleanor Collins), Sir James Douglas first British Columbia Governor “The Father of British Columbia” encouraged Black Pioneer Families settle British Columbia, Hartwick College (Congressman Isaac Newton Arnold – Emancipation Proclamation and 13th amendment), Southern Counterpart underground railroad to Mexico – Dr. Alice Baumgartner (Univeristy of Southern California) Dr. Andrew J. Torget (University of North Texas) Mexico Dr. Mekala Audain (Rutgers University), Dr. Allyson Hobbs Stanford University – Director of African and African American Studies, Dr. Niede Guidon (University of Paris-Sobonne) prehistoric (100,000 years ago) Africans in Serra De Capivara Brazil, Julia Baxter Bates Rutgers University, Dr. Karen Cook Bell (Bowie State University) Md., Julie Dash ” Brothers of the Borderland”, Dr. Spencer Crew President of The National Underground Freedom Center Cincinnati Ohio, Gullah (Geechee) “Daughters of the Dust” (Beyonce – Lemonade) Library of Congress, Frederick Douglass Statue Washington DC, Congressman George Thomas “Mickey” Leland III, Dr. Patricia Davidson cardiologist, Dr. Tamika Y Nunley Cornell University, Dr. Elizur Deming (Dr. William Mayo) Indiana medical college, Dr. Martin Robison Delany Harvard University Medical School, Dr. Allyson Hobbs – A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in Amercian Life (Harvard University Press), Dr. John Van Salee (Jacqueline Kennedy, Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Vanderbilt) Alexander Hamilton, Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower, Babe Ruth, Clark Gable, University of Virginia College at Wise Dr. Brent Kennedy (Melungeons- President Abraham Lincoln, Ava Gardner, Elvis Presley), John Legend Underground Railroad, descendants Dwayne ” The Rock” Johnson, Dr. George McCurdy director Human Rights Commission Nova Scotia, David Walker-Charlotte North Carolina (Queen Charlotte, King Charles Stuart II, Queen Philippa) McGill University (Dr. Charles R. Drew), Bates College (Oren B. Cheney) Maine, Colby College, Bowdoin College (Major General Oliver Howard, Freedmen’s Bureau, Howard University), Williams College (Samuel Chapman Armstrong founder Hampton Institute) Massachusetts, Dr. Paula A. Johnson Wellesley College (John and Mary Sawyer) Wellesley, Smith College (Lydia Maria Child, Dewey Hall, Sessions House) Northhampton, Amherst College (Henry Wood Beecher, Robert Purvis), Swarthmore College (Edward Parrish, Joseph Wharton, Lucretia Mott) Pennsylvania, Geneva College, Adrian College (Asa Mahan), Vassar College (Matthew Vassar) New York, Dr. Joy DeGruy (abolition, enslavement PTSS) Dartmouth College New Hampshire, Quakers Laura Smith Haviland Raisin Institute – Dr. Nathan Thomas House Cass County (Cassopolis), Dr. Lewis H. Milburn (flight surgeon) – Dr. Lauren I. McCurdy (radiologist) St. Joseph’s Hospital Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry Western University London Ontario, Dr. Sophia Bethena Jones (U of M) of Chatham -Kent, Essex County Ontario Black Historical tradition King’s Counsel Delos Rogest Davis – Justice Lloyd Dean, Dr. Sarah McCurdy Fitzbutler – Dr. Howard McCurdy Windsor Ontario – Lawyer Linda McCurdy – Actress Leslie McCurdy (Harriet Tubman) – Brian McCurdy CFL, Dr. Howard McCurdy (a founder, first President National Black Coalition of Canada NBCC), Dr. George McCurdy Amherstburg Essex County (Essex County Black Historical Maritime Research Papers), Waynard J. Shreve of Windsor Chartered Accountant, Louis B. Milburn Windsor Bd. of Education, James L. Dunn Public School, Henry Bibb newspaper “The Voice of the Fugitive” and journalist Mary E. Bibb, Mary E. Bibb Park Sandwich Windsor Ontario, Dr. William Henry Fitzbutler, Dr. Sophia Bethena Jones, Joseph Thompson Auto Clay Designer, Colonel Lawrence Millben (Selfridge Air Base Commander) – Atty. Michelle J. Millben (President Barack Obama White House Staff) – Mary Millben (National Anthem)-Gary and Patricia Millben-Love, North American Black Historical Museum honoured chair Justice Micheline Rawlins, Amherstburg Freedom Museum Professor Emeritus Philip Alexander-Dr. Brenda McCurdy – Nneka Allen, Cathy Adu-Peasah, Ferguson Jenkins Baseball Hall of Fame Chatham-Kent, Dr. Henry David Taylor, Alana M. Barden – Atty Bella Marshall Barden – Sgt. William H. Marshall (Academy Award Best Documentary “Hearts and Minds”) Windsor Ontario, Bryan and Shannon Prince – historic Elgin Settlement and Buxton Mission, Carolynn and Sylvia Wilson – Sheffield Park Black History and Cultural Museum Clarkburg Ontario, Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost, Harriet Tubman Institute York University Toronto, Rev. Carlyle Fielding Stewart-Dr. Jeane M. Stewart-Naeemah I. Stewart (Film 1967), Empowerment Church, Reginald and Lynette M. Barnes, Tamia Washington-Hill (Grant Hill NBA), Kimberly Simmons (Pres. Detroit River Project), Super Bowl coach Tony Dungy Jackson Michigan, Dr. Patricia Kelly University of Michigan Medical Center Ann Arbor, Birmingham Museum Michigan (George B. Taylor, Eliyah S. Fish) Farmington, (Quaker Nathan Power-Rochelle E. Danquah), Kalamazoo (Dr. Albert B. Cleage Sr. – Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr. Shrine of the Black Modonna Church), Warren Evans Wayne County Executive, Ypsitlanti (George and Mildred McCoy), Fort Wayne, Judge James E Roberts, and Second Baptist Church Detroit Michigan. 100th Buxton Homecoming Celebration Labour Day Weekend North Buxton Ontario, Justice Corrine Sparks Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law.
Anna Marie McCurdy, Brent Milburn, Bella Marshall Barden Underground Railroad Descendants enjoying “Buxton Labour Day Homecoming” with family reunion gatherings, sharing related hisory, and participating in a weekend of festivities North Buxton Ontario Canada.
Dr. Lewis Milburn (6 Ft. 5 In.) commanding prescence piloted his plane to Chatham-Kent participating in “North Buxton Homecoming Labour Day” Underground Railroad Family Reunions Canada.
North American Black Historical Museum’s Amherstburg, Ontario celebrates 30th Anniversary
Underground Railroad Descendants Board Chairman Trustee Dr. David Milburn, Dr. Roberta Wright of the Charles H. Wright Museum and Elise Harding-Davis Executive Director North American Black Historical Museum Amherstburg Canada.
Before a capacity crowd of dignitaries and Underground Railroad descendants at the North American Black Historical Museum, 277 King St., Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada, Dr. David Milburn accepted the Imhotep Award posthumously on behalf of his father Dr. Lewis Milburn in recognition of his “mark of excellence “in medicine. During his medical career, Dr. Lewis Milburn received the Medical Humanitarian Medal from Secretary of State Dean Rusk and President John F. Kennedy for his humanitarian work in Africa.
Reception likewise in recognition of Museums 30th anniversary celebrated its rich Underground Railroad Legacy. Museum curator Elise Harding-Davis denoted the Underground Railroad Heritage is acknowledged by many historians and scholars as the movement that played a pivotal role in bringing the civil rights struggle to the forefront of political consciousness, and forever changed the humanitarian concepts of the Western Hemisphere. With the help of Native Americans including Chiefs Pontiac and Tecumseh from 1680 to 1840, more than 100,000 runway slaves escaped from the south to Michigan and Canada. Underground Railroad descendants still live on the Mt. Pleasant Reservation and the Walpole Island Reservation in Ontario.
The War of 1812 marked the unification of Blacks and Native Americans into a powerful military force that prevented the spread of slavery from the United States to Canada. After initial military victory, credence was given to the fact that only the military push of civil war would eradicate slavery in the United States. Detroit and Chatham, Ontario are the locations were abolitionists John Brown, Frederick Douglass and Josiah Henson planned the raid on Harper’s Ferry, Va. Fascinating African global perspective of ancient Kemet (translation Land of the Blacks) was given citing books from Smithsonian scholar Dr. Ivan Van Sertima of Rutgers University visiting Professor at Princeton University, Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar ( African Origin of Civilization, Egypt), Dr. Frances Cress Welsing formerly of Howard University Medical School (The Isis Papers, Cress Theory), Dr. Cheryl LaRoche University of Maryland visiting Professor Georgetown University and Dr. Charles Finch III of Morehouse Medical School.
Greeks Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Hippocrates and Pythagoras were all educated in ancient Kemet (Egypt), Africa. Plato stated, “Compared with the Egyptians, the Greeks are childish mathematicians” Aristotle described the Africans, “The Ethiopians and Egyptians are very black”. The ancient Greek Herodotus, “the Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad noses, woolly hair and burnt skin”. Africans were the first builders of monumental civilizations, including the development of writing scripts, sciences, medicine, advanced mathematics, engineering, architecture, astronomy, physics, religion and the fine arts. Imhotep, the father of medicine and architecture, was the worlds first historical genius. Imhotep, eminent architect of the Saqqara Pyramid temple complex forerunner to Pharaoh Khufu’s Great Pyramid.
African religious influences are still present today. Amen was said at the end of the prayers in temples of Amen-Ra and it can still be heard today in churches around the world. Pharaoh Akhenaten, King Tuts father, pioneer of religious monotheism had a profound theological effect on the ancient African Hebrews and Essenes (Dead Sea Scrolls). Ancient Hebrews would later send missionaries to the Khazar Empire in Eastern Europe resulting in a large European conversion to Judaism. World’s first religious trinity Osirus father, Isis mother and Horus son dates back to 7,000 b.c. Horus virgin birth occurred on the sun’s Winter Solstice December 25th. When daylight becomes longer hence the child of virgin birth bringing forth illumination. Black statues of Isis and Horus were the Archetype for Madonna and Child. Many of the Egyptian Pharaohs, such as Queen Hatsheput who ruled as Pharaoh and Ramses III sent naval expeditions to the far corners of the earth Expeditions West to Central America Olmecs (Quetzalcoatl), Sumerians (Blackheads), East to India (Buddha) and S.E. Asia (Angkor Wat). The Polynesian Kahuna Religion states that Polynesians originated from the African Nile Valley. With closing remarks Elise Harding-Davis invited guests to view museums Underground Railroad exhibit and tour Canada’s first National Underground Railroad Historic Site, museum’s Nazery A.M.E. Church.
African Diaspora revolts against enslavement include – Gaspar Yanga Mexico 1618, Guyana Berbice Revolt 1763, Toussaint Louverture Haiti 1798, Jose Aponte Cuba 1812, Black Seminole Wars 1817-42, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner Rebellion United States 1831, Jamaica Samuel Sharpe Baptist War 1831-32, British Slavery Abolition Act 1833, Brazil Revolta dos Males Bahia 1835.
Underground Railroad International Legacy:
Chief Tecumseh Fort Malden(Mona Stonefish, Trustee Philip Alexander – Amherstburg Freedom Museum), King’s Counsel Delos Rogest Davis – Justice Lloyd Dean Essex County – “The Lloyd Dean Moot” University of Windsor Law School, Deputy Director Aerospace Medicine flight surgeon Dr. Lewis H. Milburn, Dr. Howard McCurdy Windsor Ontario, London – Dr. Lauren McCurdy St. Joseph’s Hospital, Own Sound British Methodist Episcopal Church (The Billy Bishop Home and Museum National Historic Site of Canada) Owen Sound, Rev. Cory Milburn Grant AME Church Toronto Canada (Black History Month-Dr. Douglas and Beverley Salmon, Warren G. Salmon, Dr. Howard A Blanchette, Rosemary Sadlier, Kathy Grant Legacy Voices, Gwyneth M. Chapman, OBHS founder Dr. Daniel G. Hill, Nikki Clarke), Natasha L. Henry Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada, York University-Toronto, Adrienne Shadd – Underground Railroad: Next Stop Toronto, Dr. Afua Cooper-Henry Bibb, Thornton and Lucie Blackburn (Toronto-Karolyn S. Frost) house Cecelia Jane Reynolds, John W. Morrison – Cataract House, Fort Erie, Nathaniel Dett Memorial Chapel BME Church Niagara Falls, Nova Scotia (William Hall-Victoria Cross, Viola Desmond, Dr. George McCurdy, Justice Corrine E. Sparks, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), W.E.B. Dubois Niagara Movement Founded in 1905 in Erie Ontario prototype for NAACP founded 1909 in New York City, Montreal – Rev. Earl Little and Louise Langdon-Little (Marcus Garvey Movement) parents of Malcolm Little “Malcolm X”, Rev. Charles H. Este Union United Church of Montreal, Dr. Mary Pattillo-Mccoy “Church Culture as a Strategy of Action in the Black Community”, Winipeg Manitoba The Pilgrim Baptist Church (Porter Lee Williams – Fair Employment Practices Act – Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, Dr. June James – President of the College Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba), Chatham-Kent, Ontario Black History Society, Windsor Ontario, Famous Black Canadian Windsorites Windsor Ontario, Flight Surgeon Dr. Lewis H. Milburn Deputy Director of Areo Space Medicine, tenured Professor Dr. Howard McCurdy University of Windsor, Professor Emeritus Philip Alexander Engineer University of Windsor, Patterson Collegiate Institute, Professor Dr. Ronald T. McLaughlin (California Institute of Technology) Engineer taught at MIT – chaired U.N. global engineering projects, Tuskegee Airman elite fighter pilot Dr. Yenwith Whitney MIT aeronautical engineer, Dental Surgeon Dr. William Kelly (University of Toronto Dental School) WWI military hero daughter Dr. Patricia Kelly (University of Ottawa Medical School) practiced at University of Michigan Medical Center, Justice Micheline Rawlins and Justice Lloyd Dean University of Windsor School of Law, Dr. Henry David Taylor, (University of Toronto Medical School) chairman Windsor Board of Education, Dr. Cheryl LaRoche “Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad”, Ontario Black History Society, “The Porter” Canadian Black Train Porters-Order of Sleeping Car Porters (OSCP) first black labor union in North America 1917 (Shawnee T. Jones, Lee Williams, William Harding, Peter Davis, Stanley Grizzle, George V. Garraway) BSCP Porters of CNR and CPR – Professor Cecil Foster’s “They Call Me George” TV series “The Porter” coproduced by CBC and BET, “The Porter” Montreal Little Burgundy, (St. Antoine), Toronto Bathurst and Bloor region, London, Windsor-Detroit, Halifax Africville, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Hogan’s Alley. Prince Albert – President Society Extinction of Slavery, St. Matthews Episcopal Church Detroit (William Lambert), Dr. William Henry Fitzbutler – Fitzbutler House Medical School University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Oberlin College (Tamika Y. Nunley) Oberlin Ohio, Dr. Mary Pattillo-Mccoy, Milwaukee Wisconsin Colin Kaepernick, Vassar College (Matthew Vassar) NY, Dartmouth College (Rev. Johnathan C. Gibbs) NH, Middlebury College (Alexander Twilight) VT, Dr. Joy DeGruy “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” PTSS, Dr. Allyson Hobbs – A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in Amercian Life (Harvard University Press), Dr. John Van Salee De Grasse (Jacqueline Kennedy, Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Vanderbilt) Alexander Hamilton, Ida Stover Eisenhower, Babe Ruth, Clark Gable, Denmark Vesey-Emanuel A.M.E. Church Charleston S.C., Rev. Asa Turner – Denmark Congregational Church Iowa, Fort Monroe VA, Melungeons (President Abraham Lincoln, Ava Gardner, Elvis Presley) Appalachia, Fort Pulaski GA., Dr. Jane Landers (Vanderbilt University) Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas, Fort Mose – St. Augustine, Chief Osceola Seminole Nation Florida, Louisiana – Haiti (Toussaint Louverture 1798), Dr. Alice Baumgartner (Rhodes Scholar – University of Oxford) South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to Civil War, Patricia Ann Talley and Candelaria Donaji Mendez Tello, Coahuila Mexico (Roseann Bacha -Garza, President of Mexico Vicente Guerrero 1829, Vicente Riva Palacio, Jose Maria Morelos, Gaspar Yanga), Tony Gleaton Smithsonian Exhibit “Africas Legacy in Mexico”
Mother & Son
Dr. Lewis Miburn - Geneva Milburn Children of the Dream Underground Railroad Descendants Legacy
Sheffield Park Black History & Cultural Museum
Sheffield Park Black History & Cultural Museum Clarksburg, Ontario, Canada (West of Toronto) curators sisters Carolynn and Sylvia Wilson. Exhibit “Visiting the Royal Family in The African Cradle of Civilization Ancient Kemet (Egypt).” donated in memory of Underground Railroad Descendants Dr. Lewis Milburn of Windsor Ontario, Herbert Wilson of Collingwood, Dr. Sophia Bethena Jones of Chatham, Dr. William Henry Fitzbutler of Amherstburg, Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott of Toronto, Powhatan Beaty – Medal of Honor, Shadrach Minkins of Montreal, lawyer Abraham B Walker of New Brunswick, William Hall-Victoria Cross, Viola Desmond of Nova Scotia, Dr. Alfred Schmitz Shadd of Saskatchewan, and Sir James Douglas “The Father of Britsh Columbia”.
Epistemological
Quadrature of the Sphere
Lux Scientia Veritas
In the Imhotep tradition, legendary Dr. Lewis Milburn transversing the royal celestial arch. The Sphinix and the Great Pyramid symbolic of man’s rise to the pure intellectual-spiritual state of illumination. The remarkable Sphinx-Pyramid geometric alignments consisting of precise cardinal points within the star creating Orion Nebula Star System.