The Unhidden Minute

The Unhidden Minute is part of the Unhidden Podcast Project supported through a National Geographic Explorer Grant from the National Geographic Society. This series celebrates the untold stories of Black American history. jamesedwardmills.substack.com

The Unhidden Minute is a education podcast hosted by James Edward Mills, with 204 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

James Edward Mills hosts The Unhidden Minute, a education show with 204 episodes published.

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  Japanese American Soldiers In WWII

  Jun 2, 20261 minS0

  <p>During World War II, thousands of Japanese Americans served distinction in the United States military. Even while many of their families were imprisoned in internment camps under Executive Order 9066, Japanese Americans were determined to prove their loyalty in the face of racism and suspicion. These soldiers became some of the most highly decorated troops in American history. The most famous units were the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, composed primarily of Japanese American soldiers from Hawai‘i and the mainland United States. Fighting in Europe, they earned extraordinary honors for bravery, including thousands of Purple He...

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  Manzanar

  May 26, 20261 minS0

  <p></p><p>In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forced removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans during the second World War II. Most were American citizens living on the West Coast. Families were given only days to sell their homes, businesses, and belongings before being sent to remote detention centers under armed guard. One of the most infamous was Manzanar, located in California’s Owens Valley beneath the Sierra Nevada mountains. More than 10,000 people lived behind barbed wire there in cramped barracks exposed to dust storms, heat, and bitter winter cold. Despite the injustice, in...

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  Chiura Obata

  May 19, 20261 minS0

  <p>Born in Japan in 1885, artist Chiura Obata transformed the landscapes of the American West into vivid expressions of beauty, spirit, and belonging. After immigrating to the United States in 1903, Obata traveled extensively through Yosemite National Park, where he painted towering granite cliffs, waterfalls, and ancient forests with a unique blend of Japanese sumi-e brushwork and Western en plein air technique. His artwork captured not only Yosemite’s grandeur, but also its emotional and spiritual power.</p><p>In 1927, Obata led one of the first organized artist pilgrimages into the Sierra Nevada, inspiring generations to see public lands as places of...

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  Wong Kim Ark

  May 12, 20261 minS0

  <p>Wong Kim Ark was born in 1873 in San Francisco to Chinese immigrant parents during an era shaped by exclusion and racial hostility. After traveling to China in 1894, he was denied reentry to the United States under the Chinese Exclusion Act, which restricted Chinese immigration and denied citizenship to Chinese nationals. Wong challenged the decision, and his case reached the Supreme Court as United States v. Wong Kim Ark.</p><p>In 1898, the Court ruled in his favor, affirming that the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of...

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  Benjamin 'Pap' Singleton

  May 5, 20261 minS0

  <p></p><p>Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton was a formerly enslaved man who became a leading voice for Black self-determination in the years after the Civil War. Born into slavery in 1809 in Nashville, Tennessee, Singleton escaped to freedom and later returned to help others do the same through the Underground Railroad. After Reconstruction, as violence and oppression spread across the South, he advocated for Black migration to the West—especially Kansas, where land ownership offered a path to independence. As a central figure in the Exoduster Movement, Singleton organized and encouraged thousands of Black Americans to leave the South in search of saf...

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