Today's American Minute

Successful Black Women of Achievement & Faith - 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 & Faith - American Minute with Bill Federer

Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Clara Brown, Biddy Mason, Maggie Lena Walker, Anne Malone, Madam C.J. Walker

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Origin of Saint Valentine's Day - American Minute with Bill Federer

Origin of Saint Valentine's Day

Origin of Saint Valentine's Day  - American Minute with Bill Federer

When Emperor Claudius demanded that Christians deny their consciences and worship pagan idols, Saint Valentine refused.

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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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