Thirteen Awful Years of the Noble Experiment Lecture via Zoom

The “noble experiment” of Prohibition in America began on January 16, 1920, after a century of agitation by the temperance movement to create a dry, sober nation.  What started as a measure during World War I to prevent soldiers from drinking quickly became a constitutional amendment to ban the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol, and the Anti-Saloon League spun beer drinking into treason.  Americans supported it with patriotic fervor as part of the war effort, not considering the consequences or how difficult it would be to enforce.