Today's American Minute

“Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are” - Booker T. Washington's famous Racial Reconciliation Speech, & his warning against that era's Critical Race Theory - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 04, 2023 • & his warning against that era's Critical Race Theory • “Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are” - Booker T. Washington's famous Racial Reconciliation Speech

Booker T. Washington wrote

"The man is unwise who does not cultivate in every manly way the friendship and goodwill of his next-door neighbor, whether he be black or white."

BTW, MLK, Jr., & Manning Johnson vs. W.E.B. Du Bois & Communist Agitators - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 04, 2023 • BTW & Manning Johnson vs. W.E.B. Du Bois & Communist Agitators • Jr. • MLK

Booker T. Washington wrote in My Larger Education-Being Chapters from My Experience (1911): "There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."

Apollo 13 "Houston, we've had a problem!" -Nixon "When we learned of the safe return of our astronauts ..."American Minute with Bill Federer

August 04, 2023 • Apollo 13 "Houston • we've had a problem!" -Nixon "When we learned of the safe return of our astronauts ..

TV newsman Walter Cronkite reported: "Perhaps never in human history has the entire world been so united by such a global drama."

Apollo 11 Moon Landing & Buzz Aldrin's Communion on the Moon - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 04, 2023 • Apollo 11 Moon Landing & Buzz Aldrin's Communion on the Moon

Their large spacesuits, which included life support backpacks, made maneuvering difficult and the control panel was accidentally kicked, breaking a circuit breaker switch -- the very switch that controlled ignition for the Eagle's lift-off rockets! If this could not be fixed, the astronauts could have been stranded on the Moon. This potentially serious accident was fixed with the tip of a pen.

Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Most Infamous Duel in U.S. History - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 04, 2023 • Aaron Burr • Alexander Hamilton • and the Most Infamous Duel in U.S. History

Considered the most infamous duel in American history, they met on the morning of July 11, 1804, at the dueling grounds near Weehawken, New Jersey, the same location where Hamilton's son, Philip was killed in a duel 3 years earlier.