Women led the first campaigns for temperance, but later men, spurred by the Anti-Saloon League, rallied for dry laws in states throughout the country.
Credit: John Binder Collection.
Women spurred the early temperance campaigns but eventually led the movement to end Prohibition, after its failures became obvious. A "Crusader" poses in 1930. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.
Citizens of Detroit heeding a "last call" in the final days before Prohibition went into effect, 1920. Credit: Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.
Nach Inkrafttreten des 18. Verfassungszusatzes begannen zahlreiche Amerikaner, ihren Alkohol selbst zu brennen. Diese Anlage wurde bei einer Razzia in Detroit in den 1920er Jahren sichergestellt und zerstört.
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