Prohibition and Temperance

The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the Anti-Saloon League were the two most popular reform organizations in American during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. They were also among the most controversial because their moral agenda, rooted in Protestant Evangelical Christianity, included a broad agenda. The following websites will help you to understand the temperance and prohibition movement.

 The WCTU organized by state. These essays on the Minnesota WCTU provides an overview of that organization and how the group's political agenda change overtime. Introduction http://womhist.binghamton.edu/wctu/intro.htm; Epilogue http://womhist.binghamton.edu/wctu/epilogue.htm

If you would like to know more:
Cartoons from the Prohibition Party
http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/ProhParty/index.htm

Mr. Dooley on Prohibition
http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/Dunne1.htm

Ohio State University History of Prohibition Site
http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/

African American Women in the WCTU
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/wctu2/intro.htm