Today's American Minute

Successful Black Women of Achievement: Sojourner Truth, Betsey Stockton, Harriet Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass - American Minute with Bill Federer

Anna Murray-Douglass & Notable Black Women Pioneers - American Minute with Bill Federer Betsey Stockton Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth

Successful Black Women of Achievement: Sojourner Truth, Betsey Stockton, Harriet Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass - American Minute with Bill Federer

After the Emancipation Proclamation, Sojourner Truth moved to Washington, D.C., met Lincoln and helped former slaves. She dictated her biography, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, 1850, stating: "When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name."

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Lincoln v. Darwin: born same day but lives had opposite effects - American Minute with Bill Federer

Born Same Day but Lives Had Opposite Effects Darwin v. Lincoln

Lincoln v. Darwin: born same day but lives had opposite effects - American Minute with Bill Federer

Reagan continued: "Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide ..."

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Black Missionaries: Lott Carey & Colin Teague to Africa; Betsey Stockton to Hawaii; John Stewart to Wyandotte Indians - American Minute with Bill Federer

Black Missionaries: Lott Carey & Colin Teague to Africa; Betsey Stockton to Hawaii; John Stewart to Wyandotte Indians - American Minute with Bill Federer

Black Missionaries: Lott Carey & Colin Teague to Africa; Betsey Stockton to Hawaii; John Stewart to Wyandotte Indians - American Minute with Bill Federer

Past and Present of Wyandot County, Ohio: a record of settlement (1913): "At Pipetown was a considerable body of Delawares ... At this place Stewart stopped, but as the Indians were preparing for a great dance they paid but little attention to him ... Stewart took out his hymn book and began to sing."

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Successful Black Men of Industry & Business; and their Faith - American Minute with Bill Federer

Successful Black Americans of Industry & Business; and their Faith

Successful Black Men of Industry & Business; and their Faith - American Minute with Bill Federer

Booker T. Washington stated: "Anyone can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job ... What we should do in our schools is to turn out fewer job seekers and more job creators ... At the bottom ... there must be for our race, as for all races ... economic prosperity, economic independence ... Political independence disappears without economic independence."

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South of the Border: Mexican Revolutions - American Minute with Bill Federer

South of the Border: Mexico's Revolutions & How they pursued former Presidents & their supporters

South of the Border: Mexican Revolutions - American Minute with Bill Federer

Santa Anna had previously told the U.S. Minister to Mexico, Joel R. Poinsett, 1824: "A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are ... A despotism is the proper government for them."

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