Ethnic Minorities and Prohibition in Texas, 1887 to 1919
Description:
Historians of the prohibition movement in Texas have assumed that the state's main ethnic minorities-Germans, Mexican Americans and African Americans-strongly opposed restrictions on the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. This study focuses on the voting patterns in fifteen counties chosen to represent varying percentages of these ethnic minorities in their populations during three statewide anti-alcohol elections (1997, 1911, and 1919) in an effort to determine exact…
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Date:
August 2006
Creator:
Sutton, Jared Paul
Partner:
UNT Libraries