top of page
dr milben.png

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

DESCENDANTS LEGACY

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. 

www.urdescendantslegacy.com

(Used with permission from Dr. David Milben)

bottom of page