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Episodes tagged "Prohibition": 1 through 7 of 7

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  1. African-American Pastors Develop the ‘Black Temperance Movement’
    date August 14, 1910map Jefferson, Alabamatags Church/Religious-Activity, Temperance Movement, Prohibition, african americans, Race Relations

    A flyer stating “Colored Citizens Mass Meeting” describes the movement of African-American pastors to change the view of the “Negro Race.”. The flyer describes the place and time that congregations would meet and the objectives of the meeting. The meeting was called in an attempt to “protest against colored women visiting barrooms and barroom premises [and] also against children visiting...

  2. An Alabama Minister Fights for Temperance By Using Race
    date January 1, 1900 to January 1, 1919map Montgomery, Alabamatags Prohibition, Race Relations, Temperance Movement, african americans

    In the early decades of the 20th century the Alabama Anti-Saloon League published a brief flyer outlining the group’s proposals. The flyer is titled “The Alabama Anti-Saloon League” and outlines four goals: “First- To federate the Churches, Sunday Schools, Temperance Societies and other moral forces of the State in a conservative, persistent, and determined movement against the saloon; “Second-...

  3. Prohibition and the Whiskey Rebellion
    date January 16, 1920map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Prohibition, Whiskey Rebellion

    On February 13, 1927, the New York Times published an article entitled “Wet and Dry Talk Heard in 1791: Arguments Used in the Whisky Rebellion Crisis Are Like Today’s,” which sought to highlight similarities between the 1790s Whiskey Rebellion and the events of Prohibition in the 1920s. Much like the events of the Whiskey Rebellion, the period of Prohibition caused citizens to actively protest...

  4. "Bill and the Water Wagon"
    date 1920 to 1932map New York, New Yorktags Prohibition, 18th Amendment, Bill and the Water Wagon

    During the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States, the consumption of alcohol became very popular, especially by men before and after work.  In thirty years, from 1870 to 1900, the number of bars in the nation grew from 30,000 to 100,000.  Since the late 19th century, years before Prohibition went into effect, moral reformers saw alcohol consumption as a problem and pushed constantly for...

  5. Potential Danger for Prohibition
    date January 31, 1920map New York, New Yorktags Temperance Movement, women's rights, Prohibition, woman's suffrage

    In 1920 Linton Smith, also known as the Bishop of Hereford, wrote a controversial article on the Temperance Movement and Prohibition. Linton claimed that prohibition could possibly divide political parties on a, “Sex basis," meaning that female prohibition proponents could vote as a block against male opponents of prohibition. Strong drink was very popular in the lives of men during the time. In...

  6. Prohibition Throughout Time
    date January 30, 1900map Albany, New Yorktags Prohibition, Temperance Movement

    In 1861, the Boston Temperance Alliance exclaimed that "alcohol in the living body [was] not a servant or a friend, but a disturber, a foe; in a single word,...a narcotic poison." The idea of prohibition has been around since colonial times, spear-headed by a man named Dr. Benjamin Rush who argued in 1784 that excessive alcohol consumption was harmful to both the human body and mind. These ideas were...

  7. Prohibition in the United States as a Social Experiment
    date 1920map Somerset, Mainetags Prohibition, Alcoholism

        Upon the beginning of the 20th century, many Americans, including various social groups introduced and supported the radical new idea of Prohibition. As made official through the Volstead Act and The Eighteenth Amendment, “The manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory...