David Goldberg
Appearances
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E2: Ready, Willing, and Mabel
Prohibition played a huge role in what you might call the culture of the 1920s.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E2: Ready, Willing, and Mabel
Prohibition had been favored by those who were Protestant. And the major organization that had pushed for the Prohibition Amendment, the Anti-Saloon League, was tied to the Protestant churches.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E2: Ready, Willing, and Mabel
And Prohibition had been motivated by a great deal of anti-immigrant sentiment because many of those who were members of this organization, the Anti-Saloon League, were especially hostile to immigrants, especially immigrants from Catholic backgrounds.