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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
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The Civil Rights Act of 1957 (opens the original)
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After Reconstruction, Southern states systematically stripped Black Americans of their voting rights through literacy tests, intimidation, economic retaliation and violence. But on September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Public Law 85-315, the first federal civil rights legislation enacted since 1875. Known as the Civil Rights Act of 1957 , the legislation came amid mounting pressure for voting rights. In May of that year, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. joined thousands of protester
Elizabeth Eckford (opens the original)
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On September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford arrived alone at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Three years after the Brown V.S. Board of Education Decision of 1954, she was among a group of Black students chosen to integrate the school, known as the Little Rock Nine . A communication mix-up caused her to miss the group’s planned meeting and she faced the crowd by herself. Arkansas National Guard troops, ordered there by Governor Orval Faubus, blocked her from entering. A
Sir Lancelot Jones (opens the original)
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Sir Lancelot Garfield Jones was born in 1898 on Key Biscayne, Florida, into a pioneering Black family that farmed the islands of Biscayne Bay. His father, Israel Lafayette Jones, bought land on Porgy Key, where the family grew pineapples and became major producers of key limes. Lancelot and his brother King Arthur later became renowned fishing guides, taking wealthy and powerful visitors across the waters they knew intimately. But when developers pushed to transform the islands into a private re
Sgt. Mingo Sanders (opens the original)
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In August 1906, gunfire erupted in Brownsville, Texas, killing one man and wounding another. The gunman was unknown. But white residents blamed Black soldiers of the 25th Infantry stationed at nearby Fort Brown. The soldiers denied involvement. Their commanders reported they were in their barracks. Still, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered 167 Black soldiers discharged without honor and without a trial. Among them was First Sergeant Mingo Sanders, a veteran soldier who had ridden with the 25th
The Campaign Hat (opens the original)
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Like other soldiers in the West, Black members of U.S. Army wore broad-brimmed campaign hats. Before there was a National Park Service, the men known as the Buffalo Soldiers , were among the troops assigned to protect Yosemite, Sequoia and Yellowstone National Parks. They fought fires, built roads and trails, enforced park regulations, and spent long days working beneath the intense western sun and sudden rainstorms. These troops often reshaped the soft felt crown by pinching it into four slopin
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