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The Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized on November 18, 1874, in Cleveland, Ohio. [3] It quickly became the largest women's organization in the United States. The women in the movement were inspired by the serious drinking problem in the United States and the disproportionate ills that befell women whose husbands were drunkards. It ...
Prohibition describes how the consumption and effect of alcoholic beverages in the United States were connected to many different cultural forces including immigration, women's suffrage, and the income tax. Eventually the Temperance movement led to the passing of Prohibition, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The first female prohibition agent was Georgia Hopley. [37] In early 1922, Hopley was sworn in as a general agent, serving under Federal Prohibition Commissioner Roy A. Haynes. Her appointment made news around the country. [38] Her hiring encouraged local law enforcement agencies to hire more women to investigate women bootleggers. [39]
Georgia Hopley was born April 29, 1858, in Bucyrus, Ohio. [1] Her father, John P. Hopley (1821–1904), was longtime editor of the Bucyrus Evening Journal, and her mother, Georgianna (Rochester) Hopley was active in the temperance movement of the 1870s.
Pauline Morton Sabin (April 23, 1887 – December 27, 1955) was an American prohibition repeal leader and Republican party official. Born in Chicago, she was a New Yorker who founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR).
Caroline Amelia Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), often referred to by Carrie, Carry Nation, [1] Carrie A. Nation, or Hatchet Granny, [2] [3] was an American who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition.
Felton was born in Decatur, Georgia, on June 10, 1835.She was the daughter of Charles Latimer, a prosperous planter, merchant, and general store owner.Charles was a Maryland native who had moved to DeKalb County in the 1820s, and his wife, Eleanor Swift Latimer, was from Morgan, Georgia.
The Newfoundland branch played an important part in campaigning for women's suffrage on the grounds that women were vital in the struggle for prohibition. [53] In 1885 Letitia Youmans founded an organization which was to become the leading women's society in the national temperance movement.