Prohibition

Discover the true story of America's "Great Experiment" - the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawing alcohol - in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's PROHIBITION.

Frances Willard started the Women's Christian Temparance Union Mary Hanchett Hunt was in charge of the Dept. of Scientific Instruction in the public schools.

Beer and Whiskey were not the Saloons only attraction to men, it served as a haven of manhood. Most cities had a designated district for saloons.

Eliza Jane Thompson, the wife of an ohio judge, led a women's protest of saloons by praying in front of them.

Mabel Walker Willebrandt was the Asst. Attorney Gen. and in charge of the Prohibition enforcement policy.

Margot Loines Wilkie talks about what dating was like in the 1920's and the changing sexual mores of women.

The Anti Saloon League successfully combined propaganda, religion and political coercion to make alcohol a wedge issue in elections.

Pauline Sabin, an heiress disillusioned with the Republican party, began the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform.

The Volstead Act was much stricter than most Americans had anticipated, including Wine and Beer in Prohibition.

George Remus, a successful criminal attorney in Chicago became the king of the bootleggers with his operation.

Wayne Wheeler, the gen. counsel for the Anti-Saloon League was the most powerful man in Washington, D.C.

Rum Row started at the tip of Maine and continued down to the coast of Florida. Boats would wait three miles off the coastline then bring in illegal alcohol at night.