PinnedEly HahamiinThe History InquiryThe Federal Government: Legitimizing and Driving the Success of the Civil Rights MovementHow the federal government catalyzed the Civil Rights Movement.Sep 7, 2022Sep 7, 2022
PinnedEly HahamiinThe History InquiryTrans-National America: Homogeneity vs. CosmopolitanismHenry Cabot Lodge and Randolph Bourne had drastically different ideologies regarding the intersection of immigration, race, and democracy.May 28, 2022May 28, 2022
PinnedEly HahamiinThe Social Justice TribuneChimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story” — A ReflectionIn her TED Talk, novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie not only tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice but warns that…Jun 18, 2022Jun 18, 2022
Ely HahamiinThe Social Justice TribuneDiscrimination within the Economy: Roosevelt and the Fair Employment Practices CommitteeEconomists and Historians of recent America, such as Barton Bernstein, Richard Polenberg, Alan Brinkley, and William H. Chafe have…Oct 29, 2022Oct 29, 2022
Ely HahamiinThe Social Justice TribuneDehumanization in Japanese Internment CampsIn one of my past articles, The Classic American Contradiction: America’s Hypocrisy with Freedom and Minorities during World War II, I…Aug 17, 20221Aug 17, 20221
Ely HahamiinThe Social Justice TribuneCharles Coughlin’s Mass Circulation of Antisemitic PropagandaIn the midst of the Great Depression, Charles Coughlin’s mass circulation of antisemitic propaganda undermined the significant…Aug 5, 2022Aug 5, 2022
Ely HahamiinThe Social Justice TribuneThe Politics of Anti-Semitism in the 20th CenturyIn 1913, Leo Frank, a Jewish 29-year-old factory superintendent, was convicted with no evidence for the murder of a devout Christian female…Aug 5, 2022Aug 5, 2022
Ely HahamiinThe Social Justice TribuneThe American Intersection of Immigration and RaceWhy did Northern interest in supporting the voting rights of the African-Americans wane in the latter years of the nineteenth century? The…Aug 4, 2022Aug 4, 2022
Ely HahamiinThe Social Justice TribuneHow “Redeemers” Sought to Silence the Black Voice in the 1900sIn the late 1800s and early-to-mid 1900s, Southern whites seek to “redeem” the South. In doing so, they silenced the voices of many black…Aug 4, 2022Aug 4, 2022
Ely HahamiinThe Social Justice TribuneHow Economics and Politics Can Spark Injustice: The Fragility of Democracy in Weimar GermanyThe Weimar era occurred in a unique time period following WWI where Germany emerged a battered and bewildered country amid civil unrest…Aug 2, 20221Aug 2, 20221