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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Marching to the Tune of Temperance: Women and Prohibition
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March is Women’s History Month. For much of history, women were encouraged to live their lives in the private, or home sphere. But the tempe...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
The Dreaded Jake-Leg and Prohibition
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In the United States from 1920 to 1933, a nationwide constitutional law, the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibited the manufacture, sale and tra...
Sunday, January 1, 2023
This Month In Bossier Parish History
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January: Though the Years Jan 1951: Haughton High School Newspaper "The Buccaneer Trove". Images are newspaper clippings f...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Over Thirty Years of Bootlegging in Bossier Parish
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The Prohibition Act went into effect on Jan. 16, 1920 making “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the i...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Temperance and Prohibition in Bossier Parish
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The temperance movement in the early 1800s served as a foundation for the “dry” crusade, which led to the prohibition era. During the time...
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