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Wayne Bidwell Wheeler (November 10, 1869 – September 5, 1927) was an American attorney and longtime leader of the Anti-Saloon League.The leading advocate of the prohibitionist movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s, he played a major role in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which outlawed the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic ...
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. [1] The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919.
Political Power in Alabama (University of Georgia Press, 1995) Sellers, James B. The Prohibition Movement in Alabama, 1702–1943 1943. Thomas, Mary Martha. The New Women in Alabama: Social Reform and Suffrage, 1890–1920 (1992) Thomas, Mary Martha. Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War (1987)
The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was an act of the 66th United States Congress designed to execute the 18th Amendment (ratified January 1919) which established the prohibition of alcoholic drinks.
A dry state was a state in the United States in which the manufacture, distribution, importation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited or tightly restricted.Some states, such as North Dakota, entered the United States as dry states, and others went dry after the passage of prohibition legislation or the Volstead Act.
(Reuters) - Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law on Wednesday a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools, making the state one of a few to enact broad measures ...
Two high schools in Alabama's capital, a hub of the civil rights movement, will no longer bear the names of Confederate leaders. The Montgomery County Board of Education on Thursday voted for new ...
Prohibition Party National Conventions and Campaigns: Year No. Convention Site & City Dates Presidential nominee Vice-Presidential nominee Votes Votes % 1872: 1st: Comstock's Opera House, Columbus, Ohio: February 22, 1872: James Black (Pennsylvania) John Russell (Michigan) 5,607: 0.1 1876: 2nd: Halle's Hall, Cleveland, Ohio: May 17, 1876: Green ...