Prohibition

How to Train Kids in the Practice of Temperance

How to Train Kids in the Practice of Temperance

When you envision leaders of Prohibition, what do you picture? Today in our series, we learn more about the crusade to turn America into a dry nation. It may surprise you to learn that it wasn’t spearheaded by only white Christian women who disapproved of saloons and whiskey. Leaders in the growing civil rights movement also pushed for temperance, and one woman convinced the government that the path to prohibition was best paved through the public school system.

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  • Host: Sharon McMahon
  • Executive Producer: Heather Jackson
  • Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder
  • Writers and Researchers: Sharon McMahon, Valerie Hoback, Amy Watkin, Mandy Reid