Everett Library: HST: Prohibition: Prohibition Activism

Institutional Documents

Social movements of the 19th and early 20th century were entirely dependent on the print medium. It is from their pamphlets, news releases, and records of their meeting set down in print that we can see the evolution of their organization and its goals to change the social system and the challenges that it faced as it grew in political power.

Primary Sources

WCTU
Original institutional documents from the Women's Christian Temperance Union
Anti-Saloon League
The Westerville Public Library in Ohio maintains an extensive library of publications for this early twentieth century political organization.
Brown Digital Repository:Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition
The digitized items in the Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition Collection are from the Alcoholism and Addiction Studies Collection, as well as from various collections in the Brown University Library — broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications.
New England Historical Society
Library and Archive on New England History, with resources available for the temperance movement and women's equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Digital Archives
A collection of correspondence and publications for one of the leaders of the women's movement.
Indiana Ku Klux Klan:
The Ku Klux Klan became a national political movement in the 1920's, it's philosophy reflecting the deep seated nativism of the American character and a reaction to the progressive movement.
Women of Protest
This collection includes 448 digitized photographs selected from approximately 2,650 print photographs in the Records of the National Woman's Party.