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                                                   Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott,
Dr. Lewis Milburn, Air Marshal Billy Bishop

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 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.





Quadrature of the Sphere




                 UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MEMORIAL MONUMENT DETROIT WINDSOR SCULPTOR
ED DWIGHT

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 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.      
     

                                      FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA,  SOJOURNER
TRUTH BUST,CATHY HUGHES TVONE, ARTIST ARTIS LANE                        




FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA GAVE AN INSPIRING ENLIGHTEN LECTURE AT THE UNVEILING
CEREMONY OF ABOLITIONIST SOJOURNER TRUTH BUST. UNDERGROUND RAILROAD DESCENDANT
ARTIST ARTIS LANE WAS ABLE TO COMPLETE SOJOURNER TRUTH BUST MASTERPIECE WITH
THE SUPPORT OF CATHY HUGHES. FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA WAS INSTRUMENTAL PLACING
SOJOURNER TRUTH BUST IN EMANCIPATION HALL, U.S. CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, DC.
                                                
                                 NORTH AMERICAN BLACK HISTORICAL MUSEUM’S
AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY

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


Deputy Director AeroSpace Medicine Dr. Lewis Milburn representing the U.S. Air
Force at the International European Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine in
Rome.





         






Historical Society Archives



                                                                    Buxton
National Historic Site and Museum,North Buxton,Ontario
Honoree 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 Labor Day
Homecomings. Emancipation Day Celebration : Windsor Ontario, London (Beth
Emanuel BME Church) Owen Sound, Amherstburg, Collingwood (Carolynn and Sylvia
Wilson-Sheffield Park Black History Museum) Clarksburg, Hamilton (St. Paul's AME
Church - Prince Hall Mason Plaque), Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick (Willow
Grove Baptist Church), Toronto Simcoe Day-Caribana, St. Catharines, Montreal
(Union United Church) Quebec, Halifax Nova Scotia (Viola Desmond, Rosa Parks),
Winnipeg Manitoba, Eldon Saskatchewan (Shiloh Baptist Church), Edmonton Alberta
(Emmanuel AME Church) Vancouver - Victoria (First Baptist Church North Star
Mission) British Columbia, Canada.





UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FAMILIES 


Epistemological


                                                                               
   Freedom Conductor Award Recipients

Underground Railroad Descendants – museum trustee chairman Colonel Lawrence
Millben, Dr. David Milburn, and Dr. Carlyle Fielding Stewart III Freedom
Conductor Award recipients experienced the empowerment while viewing museums
ancient Egyptian “Visiting the Royal Family” exhibit and the Underground
Railroad artifacts. Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum), Hamilton (Griffin House),
Niagara Falls Heritage Area, Salem Chapel B.M.E Church (Harriet Tubman) St.
Catharines, Montreal Quebec (Philipsburg United Church), African Meeting House
Boston (Rev. Thomas Paul), Cheyney University Cheyney Pennsylvania, Belmont
Mansion Philadelphia, Hosanna A.U.M.P. Church Lincoln University ( Dr. Judith
A.W. Thomas), United Church on the Green adjoining Yale University, Memorial
A.M.E Zion Church (Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony) Rochester New York,
Mother A.M.E. Zion Church New York, Metropolitan A.M.E. Church Washington D.C.
St. John's Episcopal Church Cleveland Ohio, Case Western Reserve University
(Owen Brown), Bethel A.M.E Church Indianapolis Indiana, Quinn Chapel A.M.E.
Church Chicago Illinois were North Star Underground Railroad Destinations.


         President William Jefferson Clinton, Colonel Lawrence Millben, Michigan
Governor Jennifer Granholm

President Bill Clinton signed the National Underground Railroad Network to
Freedom Act to preserve and protect the Underground Railroad.
Key Underground Railroad conveyance domains William Still House, First
Congregational Church of Detroit (Harriet Beecher Stowe), Buxton Historic Site
Museum (Shannon Prince), Warren House Harvard University Dr. Henry Louis Gates
Jr., Josiah Henson House Dresden. 


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                          Charles H Wright Museum

Dr. David Milburn was the recipient of Charles H. Wright Museum's coveted
"Legacy Award," chaired the Economic Development Committee during the building
of Museum of African American History. Dr. Milburn standing to the left of his
mentor's Dr. Charles H. Wright bust, David Smedley's masterpiece. Dr. Wright was
a mentor to many in medicine and encouraged noblesse oblige, giving back to the
community. Underground Railroad Descendants Dr. Barbara Smith, Dr. David
Milburn, Dr. Roberta Wright of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American
History, Colonel Lawrence Millben retired base commander of Selfridge Airbase,
and Grace Doss.


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, Dr. Howard McCurdy Windsor
Ontario, London - Dr. Lauren McCurdy St. Joseph's Hospital, 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), Thornton and Lucie Blackburn (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), 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, Vassar College (Matthew Vassar) NY,
Dartmouth College (Rev. Johnathan C. Gibbs) NH, Middlebury College (Alexander
Twilight) VT, 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., Fort
Mose - St. Augustine, Chief Osceola Seminole Nation Florida, Louisiana - Haiti
(Toussaint Louverture 1798), 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"


                                                                               
                                               Alpha Phi Alpha Brothers

Underground Railroad descendants Mayor Dennis Archer, Ada Thompson-Milburn
family matriarch, and Dr. David A. Milburn share family history at Dr. Milburn's
Detroit residence.

                                                    Atty.Roderick D. Gillum,
Mayor Dennis Archer, Atty. Harry E. Johnson Sr., Coach Tony Dungy 

Atty. Roderick D. Gillum board chairman (et. W.K. Kellogg Foundation) and Atty.
Harry E. Johnson Sr. president of the Washington D.C. Martin Luther King Jr.
National Memorial. Mayor Dennis Archer first African American President Elect of
American Bar Association. Paul Robeson grandfather Charles H. Bustill was an
abolitionist and U.R. conductor. Underground Railroad descendant Coach Tony
Dungy (Jimmy Raye of Light M.S.U. Duffy Daugherty, Quiet Strength) first African
American NFL coach to win Super Bowl. Descendant Dr. Yenwith Whitney an elite
fighter pilot Tuskegee Airmen and M.I.T aeronautical engineer. 




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