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Codename Midnight William Lambert and the Underground Railroad
William Lambert served as the vice president and one of the principal conductors on the Detroit Underground Railroad. He organized and led a secret order, The African American Men of Mysteries known as the Detroit Vigilant Committee. He was one of the founders and first warden of the St. Mattews Episcopal Church, which was the first Black Episcopal Church in Michigan.
William Lambert was a proponent of education. He and his family were relentless in bringing publiclicly supported education to the African American children of Detroit. William Lambert was a true founding Civil Rights leader generations ahead of his time.
William Lambert was a proponent of education. He and his family were relentless in bringing publiclicly supported education to the African American children of Detroit. William Lambert was a true founding Civil Rights leader generations ahead of his time.
William Lambert's Speech Exerpt
"Therefore we feel ourselves aggrieved that the blessing obtained by the blood and toil of our fathers are not administered as equally to us as to your selves. We feel that our suffering caused by being deprived of our political rights, should call forth the sympathies of the whole human race, but, more especially those of yourselves among who we dwell and who are the authors of our calamities. For you have trampled our liberties in the dust and thus standing with the iron heel of oppression on our heads, you bid us rise to a level with yourselves; and because we do not rise, you point the finger of scorn and contempt at us and say, that we are an inferior race by nature."
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