This day in history: Coroner’s jury picked for police shooting review. Temperance group condemns displays

A six-person coroner’s jury was selected to hear evidence in the police shooting death of Craig S. Jordan, 17, a Lewis and Clark High School student. During jury selection, all jurors were asked if ...
Los Angeles Times

A toast to the misunderstood temperance movement on the anniversary of its demise

Eighty-nine years ago this week, another of our long national nightmares was over. For 13 luckless years, the United States of America went piously, officially “dry,” banning by constitutional ...
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Bell Ringer: Women's Christian Temperance Union and Suffrage

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Kate Clarke Lemay talked about the Women's Christian Temperance movement and how it impacted women's suffrage. Historian Kate Clarke Lemay ...
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Women's Suffrage and the Temperance Movement

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North Dakota Women’s Christian Temperance Union chapter: 'Ours is the solution to the problem'

DICKINSON, N.D. — In a humble home in Dickinson, five women gathered on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 28, in fellowship for a cause. After warm welcomes, some small talk and a devotional, the women stood to ...
VTDigger

Then Again: Farmwives found political voice through temperance movement

Members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union gather in Weston in 1884. The drive for women’s suffrage split the temperance movement, with some women opposing gaining the right to vote. Courtesy ...
PBS

Temperance & Suffrage

The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which had a Lancaster chapter, was fundamental in pushing for Prohibition

Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 18th Amendment banning the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol in the United States. The amendment, which led to Prohibition, ...
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A Century After Black Activist FEW Harper Fought For The Vote And Against Alcohol, The U.S. Still Hasn’t Fully Delivered

The 19th-century fight for suffrage both brought together and divided white and black women over whether they should first focus efforts on voting rights for Black men or all women. The connection ...
Daily Camera

Boulder history: Women’s temperance leader held in high esteem

In 1898, after the death of Frances Willard, the founder and the national president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, two Boulder men named their new downtown commercial building in her honor ...
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North Dakota temperance leader fought tirelessly to secure women's suffrage in her state

The battle to allow women to vote in North Dakota was long and hard. Still, because of the determination, tenacity and hard work of a few indefatigable supporters, a bill was passed in 1917 allowing ...
The Baltimore Sun

India moves toward temperance Liquor: As the women of rural India have declared war on their husbands’ abuse of alcohol, the country’s politicians have taken notice, and so ...

RAGHUNATHAPURAM, India — It was a momentous event: Women by the hundreds rampaged through the local liquor store, throwing the inventory into the streets and smashing the bottles with broomsticks. For ...