An image depicting teetotaler women protesting the consumption of alcohol actually has origins as a satirical publicity still ...

Excerpt from "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" "THE STREETS OF San Francisco were jammed. A frenzy of cars, trucks, wagons, and every other imaginable form of conveyance crisscrossed ...

graft and corruption which finally led to the law’s repeal as a failure and South Carolina’s movement toward State Prohibition. Under questioning, he admitted that local conditions then were ...

Musical conductor Thomas Wilson describes the music of the Prohibition era as the “sound of resistance.” The 1920s speakeasy movement brought about the birth of jazz, Wilson said, creating the ...

Prohibition already existed Prohibition had a long history in the USA at both local and state level. For example, the state of Maine turned ‘dry’ in 1851. Temperance groups Many campaigning ...