Since it's Carrie Nation day here at LGM, let's look at the 1901 Edwin S. Porter film mocking her actions, Kansas Saloon Smashers. Surprisingly lengthy Wikipedia entry about it. https://www.youtube.com/embed/S5iYtpNSG2c
prohibition
This is the grave of Carrie Nation. Born in 1846 in Garrard County, Kentucky, Carrie Moore (her name sometimes spelled Carry, but historians generally use the Carrie spelling despite the.
Tonight's film is footage of Billy Sunday ranting about fighting the repeal of prohibition. While I'd seen pictures of what he did with his hands, I'd never actually watched footage.
This isn't exactly an unknown story, but it's always a good reminder to remind us how the Ku Klux Klan wasn't just a racist organization, but one trying everything it could to put back all the scary new cultural stuff of the early 20th century...
This is the grave of Eliot Ness. Ness of course is famous for his role with the U.S. Treasury Department during Prohibition. He joined the department in 1927, rising rapidly..
John Hodgman, reading a anti-women's suffrage letter to the editor from 1914.
On this date in 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified, repealing Prohibition, otherwise known as the stupidest law in American history. The state that put the 21st Amendment over the top? Utah, of course.