In this episode, junior history education major Whitney Befort joins Hollie Marquess to discuss Pauline Sabin and her efforts to repeal the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Whitney covers her early life, her involvement in politics, and how she mobilized women all over the country to dismantle Prohibition in the U.S.
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Selected Bibliography:
Sabin, Pauline Morton. “I Change My Mind on Prohibition.” Outlook, June 13, 1928. https://www.unz.com/print/Outlook-1928jun13-00254/.
“Women Will Battle For Dry Law Repeal.” The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, GA), March 1, 1932. https://archive.org/details/per_atlanta-constitution_1932-03-01_64_261/page/n13/mode/2up.
Ambrose, Hugh, and John Schuttler. Liberated Spirits: Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition. New York: Berkely, 2018.
Neumann, Caryn E. “The End of Gender Solidarity: The History of the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform in the United States, 1929-1933.” Journal of Women’s History 9, no. 2 (1997): 31-51. https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2010.0564.
“The Repeal of Prohibition.” Prohibition: An Interactive History. The Mob Museum. Accessed October 30, 2023. https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-end-of-prohibition/repeal-of-prohibition/.
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