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Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"State and local laws against the sale of alcohol arrived in the US South in tandem with white supremacist Jim Crow laws, years before national prohibition. According to Brendan Payne, this was no coincidence. In 'Gin Crow,' he reveals that white prohibitionists encountered difficulty passing anti-alcohol laws until they blamed their failures on racial and ethnic minorities--two groups who tended to vote against prohibition. White 'drys' gradually...
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