Welcome to the Underground Railroad Flight to Freedom Program website. Here, you can view facts about the Underground Railroad, information on the Flight to Freedom Program Tour, our Program Partners, UGRR Summer Camp and its curriculum. Please visit one of our Underground Railroad Flight to Freedom Program sites in your area. Don’t forget to take our virtual tour of several historic Escape Routes!

Mission Statement
Capture and sustain the national Legacy of the Underground Railroad for researchers, educators, non profit organizations and their constituencies.

Underground Railroad Archive Databases

• http://www.accessible.com/accessible/
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
• http://docsouth.unc.edu/
• http://people.uvawise.edu/runaways/

Underground Railroad Facts
The exact date the Underground Railroad initiated its tracks for moving slaves along a journey to freedom remains unknown. The belief is that this movement began as early as the 1600’s (see www.) Documentation supports that the movement became more organized around the 1820’s and 1830’s, with slaves escaping to the Caribbean, Mexico, Free states (CT, IL, IN, OH, PA, NY, MA, VT, ME, MI, NH by 1837) and Canada. For more info visit the following links:

• http://afgen.com/underground_railroad2.html
• www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/ugrr/exuggr1.htm
• www.freedomcenter.org
• www.pbs.org/ugbh/aia/part4/4p294kl.htm
• www.nationalgeographic.com

Program Partners
Program Partners (Eastern University, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, & Wayne State University) of the Living Museum’s Underground Railroad Flight to Freedom Program serve as a linkage of resources that assist in the dissemination of information regarding the Underground Railroad in their metropolitan communities and abroad. If your institution is interested in becoming a Program Partner, contact us.

Satellite Partners
Satellite Partners (Brooklyn Heights, NY, Burlington, IA, Detroit, MI, Galesburg, IN, Terre Haute, IN, Toulon, IL, Wayne, MI) are program sites that host tours and or facilitate information via electronic sites specific to the history of the Underground Railroad. If your Program or Organization is interested in becoming a Program Site, contact us.

Underground Railroad Flight to Freedom Program Tour
The Living Museum’s Underground Railroad Flight to Freedom Program Tour is located at the Historic First Congregational Church of Detroit in Detroit, MI. This is a “storytelling” simulation of a slave’s journey to freedom. The tour last approximately 30 minutes in which participants are shackled with wrist bands and pass through the “Door of No Return” on Goree Island in Africa. As escaping slaves, participants become passengers on the Underground Railroad and are led by a conductor in which they hide out to escape bounty-hunters, cross the Ohio “Deep” River, take refuge in safe houses in Quaker communities in Indiana and move on to “Midnight” the code name for Detroit. Click Here for tour information.

UGRR Summer Camp
Underground Railroad (UGRR) Summer Camp was developed to provide young people with the history of the Underground Railroad. During this camp the youth will learn about the operation of the Underground Railroad, will learn the Freedom Songs of the movement, will experience quilting for the Underground and much more.

BABES aboard the Underground
A children's story book has been developed to give smaller children exposure to the history of the Underground Railroad featuring Blindy Bloodhound.

In Blindy's Trip to the Archives, educators, youth and scholars have an opportunity to join the BABES kids as they visit a special archive to research and interpret just a few of the many documents that help tell the stories that set the stage for Blindy and Benjy. Click here for more info.