“No political, economic or moral issue has so engrossed and divided all
the people of America as the Prohibition problem, except the issue of slavery…”
-- Mabel Willebrandt, deputy attorney general in charge of Prohibition enforcement, 1929.
-- Mabel Willebrandt, deputy attorney general in charge of Prohibition enforcement, 1929.
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By 1918, after nearly 100 years of debate over alcohol abuse and consumption, Congress passed the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Though the "Prohibition Amendment" and Volstead Act of 1919 succeeded in banning the import, export, transport and sale of alcohol in the U.S., they failed as permanent changes because the Amendment was ultimately repealed in 1933. Nevertheless, the consequences of the experiment were significant; organized crime increased greatly over that time and the dispute over government's reach into citizens' private lives grew and continues even to this day.
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"Brush Stomp" New Orleans Jazz, 1920s
Kamran Kelly
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