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Digital History

Digital History: Prohibition

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a very comprehensive discussion of Prohibition, the reasons supporters pushed for it, the problems with enforcement, and its failure. Read about anti-German sentiment as a reason for Prohibition, the increase in organized crime...
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Museum of the City of San Francisco

Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: Sen. Phelan Attacks Prohibition

For Students 9th - 10th
An article in the April, 1929, San Francisco Magazine by California Senator, James D. Phelan, decrying Prohibition and giving many reasons why it didn't work.