Dr. David Milburn Honored
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.
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.
From the very beginning of enslavement, Native Americans were the First to come to the aid of Runaway Slaves. Initial Underground Railroad concept of escape routes,trails,sanctuaries,networks,logistics,and code words out of necessity were created by Native Americans and Escaped Slaves.Chiefs Pontiac,Tecumseh, Wyandotte Tawree, Seminole Osceola, Seminole Wildcat,Red Cloud, Black Hawk and many others protected- sheltered Black Refugees. Due to the inherent human quest for freedom from 1680 to 1840 over 100,000 escaped enslavement.
Dr. David Milburn was the recipient of Charles H. Wright Museum's coveted "Honored Legacy," 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.
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 (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 off 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 - Flight Surgeon Dr. Lewis H. Milburn Deputy Director of Areo Space Medicine, tenured Professor Dr. Howard McCurdy microbiologist 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), Porter "Grandpa" Joseph Jones 3156 St. Antoine Montreal Quebec, Negro Community Centre of Montreal - Charles H. Este pastor of Montreal Union United Church, Toronto Businessman Wilson Ruffin Abbott - Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott University of Toronto Medical School, Toronto Deputy Mayor William Peyton Hubbard, 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, Michelle Alexander Stanford University Law School "The New Jim Crow", 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"
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.
President Barack Obama created the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument under the Antiquities Act. President Barack Obama's foresight and historic enactment memorialized Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman. Tubman National Monument located in Maryland (National Park Service) area encompasses Underground Railroad historical landmarks dedicated in honor of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Pertinent Iconic Inaugural Addressment N.M.A.A.H.C President Obama September 24, 2016
First Lady Michelle Obama gave an inspiring enlighten lecture at the unveiling ceremony of abolitionist Sojourner Truth bust. Underground Railroad descendant Artist Artis Lane (Carol Lane McCoo) was able to complete Sojourner Truth bust masterpiece with the support of Cathy Hughes. The late C. Delores Tucker, chaired The National Congress of Black Women, initiated the fight to include the memorial bust honoring of Sojourner Truth. First Lady Michelle Obama was instrumental placing Sojourner Truth bust in Emancipation Hall, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC. This historic effort paved the way for later statue installation of fellow abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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.
Fascinating archeological research by Dr. Niede Guidon utilizing conducted carbon dating combined with conclusive supporting evidence (skeletal remains) indicates Black Africans reached the Americas (Brazil) by boat at least 100,000 years ago, thereby negating the Clovis First theory. Dr. Niede Guidon Doctorate in Archeology from the Sorbonne University of Paris France. Scholar and researcher at the renown French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Professor at the School for Advance Studies in Paris France, Dr. Niede Guidon director of the French Mission in Piaui Brazil help create "Serra de Capivara National Park" -UNESCO World Heritage Site where 945 sites with prehistoric paintings have been found. Dr. Niede Guidon's many awards includes the Prince Claus Award and the Ford Conservation and Enviroment Award. Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
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.
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 (Underground Railroad Families) Homecomings.
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. David Bell, Natasha Henry, Channon Oyeniran, Nikki Clarke) Toronto Canada, 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, 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 (University of Southern California) Dr. Andrew J. Torget (University of North Texas) Mexico Dr. Mekala Audain (Rutgers University), 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), 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), 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 Micheline Rawlins University of Windsor Law School.
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, the Underground Railroad artifacts and Historic Nazery A.M.E Church. Toronto Ontario, Niagara Falls Heritage Area, Montreal Quebec, Charles Mitchell - William Jerome (Dr. Lorraine McConaghy) Victoria British Columbia, LaNesha DeBardelaben NAAM executive director Seattle Washington, Milwaukee Wisconsin (Colin Kaepernick), Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims (Pastor Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe) New York Appalachian Mountains Black Melungeon Heritage Area (President Abraham Lincoln, Ava Gardner, Elvis Presley), Owen Brown - John Price-James Monroe Jones (daughter Dr. Sophia Bethena Jones) Oberlin Heritage Center (Tamika Y. Nunley) Oberlin College Ohio, Earlham College (Jeremiah Cox, Levi Coffin) Richmond Indiana, Attorney Michelle Millben Georgetown University, NovaScotia Justice Corrine Sparks-Weldon Award, William Lambert (Rev. Ricksford Meyers, Dr. Majorie Peebles-Meyers), (Dr. Richard E. Smith) St. Matthews Episcopal Church Detroit (Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society Detroit Public Library) were North Star Underground Railroad Destinations. Southern Destinations Florida Black Seminoles Chief Osceola Seminole Nation, Dr. Jane Landers Vanderbilt University - Florida to Cuba, Mexico Presidente Guerrero (1829), Dr. Alice Baumgartner: "South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to Civil War", and Candelaria Donaji Mendez Tello - Texas to Mexico.
Atty. Coral Watt, Dr. David A Milburn, Alivia Watt
Dr. David Milburn served on Detroit Institute of Arts (D.I.A) Founders Junior Council (F.J.C) and Friends of African and African American Art (F.A.A.A.A) boards respectively, chaired Romare Bearden Exploratory Committee, With support of Walter B. Ford II (Board of Trustees Chairman), Romare Bearden became the premier Black artist to have a major seminal exhibit at D.I.A. The collaboration culminated in Romare Bearden's D.I.A. Centennial Project "Quilting Time" a heuristic focus on Black southern. congregational- soldality convergence as illustrated in "Underground Railroad Quilts" during Quilt pattern and codes creation.
Dr. David Milburn, Dr. Helen M Shannon, Cecile Keith Brown
Detroit Medical Society (DMS) founded 1917. Dr. Charles H. Wright emphasized "The National Medical Association Demands Equal Opportunity: Nothing More Nothing Less" with the ardent support of DMS executive board member Dr. Lewis H. Milburn. The Detroit Medical Society in Civic and Social Activities - DMS Online, "The Man and the Museum", Detroit Medical Society sustained the development of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and co-founded initially funded the nation's largest NAACP Dinner Fundraiser - Detroit Annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner.
Underground Railroad Descendant Dr. David Milburn gave the Charles H. Wright Museum fundraiser at Mayor Coleman A. Young's Manoogian Mansion. The "North Star Underground Railroad Heritage Legacy" exhibit was the premier exhibit for the opening of Charles H. Wright Museum.
Detroit Historical Museum Underground Railroad
Tuskegee Airmen at Detroit Historical Museum honored underground railroad descendant Colonel Lawrence Millben first black base commander Michigan Selfridge Air Base. Famous Tuskegee Airmen were acknowledged General Benjamin O. Davis Jr, General Daniel "Chappie" James Sr., Charles Alfred Anderson (Elenore Rosevelt), Mayor Coleman Young, Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson (Congressional Gold Medal) and Harry T. Stewart (won inaugural National "William Tell" Top Gun 1949).
Lt. Halbert Alexander, Lt. James Harvey, Capt. Alva Temple, and Lt. Harry Stewart pictured here with the First Annual United States Air Force (USAF) Fighter Gunnery Meet First Place Trophy “Top Gun” awarded to Tuskegee Airmen.
Dr. Yenwith Whitney Chairman
Tuskegee Airmen Alfred Cole, William Thompson, and Nate Carr as Underground Railroad descendent Dr. Yenwith Whitney an elite fighter pilot and M.I.T. aeronautical engineer presented Dr. David Milburn with the venerated "Man of the Year" Award for his contributions to medicine and community, noblesse oblige.
Underground Railroad descendants Mayor Dennis Archer, Ada Thompson-Milburn family matriarch, and Dr. David Milburn share family history at Dr. Milburn's Detroit residence
Atty. Harry E Johnson Sr, Dr. David Milburn, Judge Craig Strong
Atty. Harry E. Johnson Sr. pivotal role, National General President of Alpha Phi Alpha, President of Martin Luther King Jr. Washington D.C. National Memorial Foundation. M.L.K National Memorial Dedication October 16 2011 reflected staunch support from Dr. David Milburn, Judge Craig Strong, Judge Damon Keith, Attorney General Eric Holder, Atty Roderick D. Gillum, Dr. William Sweezer, Richard C. Gregory, John H. Johnson, Four Star General Johnnie Edward Wilson, Senator Edward Brooke, Alphas nation-wide and internationally.
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Clifton Wharton chairman Rockefeller Foundation, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, Premier Norman Manley, Premier Sir Edward T. Richards
Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, Martin Luther King Jr., Paul Robeson, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. , Duke Ellington, Astronaut Winston E. Scott St. James A.M.E. Zion Church Ithaca N.Y. Seven Jewels Cornell University
Dr. David Milburn
W.E.B Dubois
Dr. Cornel West
Non Ministrari sed Ministrare
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.
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