Item Info
Source: Print and Picture Collection
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"Vox Populi"
"Prohibition"
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Created for Evening Public Ledger, date unknown.
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The 18th amendment to the United States Constitution, 1920-1933, prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. It put legal brewers out of business. At first there was public support but within a short time normally law-abiding citizens were being arrested for frequenting bathtub ginworks and basement stills, and speakeasies. This was the unintended consequence: bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, rackets, gangsters, and organized crime.
By 1932, there were groups demanding the end to Prohibition; Americans Against the Prohibition Amendment and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. It was an election year; the public outcry for repeal was heard.
Country: Country:United States
State/Province:Pennsylvania
Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): ca. 1932
Creator Name: Sykes, Charles Henry, 1882-1942 - Artist