Liquor and Lawlessness in a Southside Virginia City
by
Frankie Y. Bailey, Alice P. Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Prostitution, gambling, moonshine and drugs could all be found behind closed the closed doors of Danville, VA from 1919 to 1933. During Prohibition, the "Law and Order League," of Danville was, of course, "dry," but the city's mayor was personally was known to be "personally wet," and in 1911 citizens...