Showing posts with label '20'S. Show all posts
Showing posts with label '20'S. Show all posts

January 7, 2019


How Anti-Immigrant Racism Fueled Prohibition

The 1920s weren’t just gin joints and jazz. Anti-immigrant racism was all the rage.
By Lisa McGirr
Ms. McGirr is a professor of history at Harvard and the author of “The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State.”


NY TIMES