Prohibition

Captured whiskey still, Miller County
Photograph courtesy of the Arkansas History Commission

Because of the success of the local option campaign, by 1916, on the eve of the passage of a law by the Arkansas legislature prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the state, only four towns operated with open saloons. With the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919, the WCTU turned its attention to other matters such as literacy and child welfare, but lacking the drama and purpose associated with temperance, it gradually faded.

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