Dec 5, 2019
Happy Repeal Day! On this day in 1933, the repeal of thirteen years of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.
We’re toasting the occasion today with this August 8, 1932 photograph from a rally of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (W.O.N.P.R.), an organization founded in 1929 by Pauline Morton Sabin (1887-1955) to advocate for the repeal of Prohibition. By 1932, the organization counted over 600,000 members and had a leadership dominated by women who, like Sabin, were wealthy and well-connected wives of American industry leaders.
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