Joe L Coker: 1 book
Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause
Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
In the late 1800s, Southern evangelicals believed contemporary troubles -- everything from poverty to political corruption to violence between African Americans and whites -- sprang from the bottles of "demon rum" regularly consumed in the South. Though temperance quickly gained support...
