12019-01-29T16:38:33-08:00The Center for Women's History and Leadership396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2304254plain2019-03-13T22:42:04-07:00The Center for Women's History and Leadership396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2"Local option" was a strategy for prohibition that allowed a town's residents to vote on whether they would allow saloons or sales of liquor. Here Willard is stating that black voters were responsible for several of these measures being defeated. The best evidence suggests that black support for temperance in the South was actually strong, and black voters did not make the difference in these close elections.
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12019-01-09T15:32:19-08:00The Center for Women's History and Leadership396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2Voice interview 31plain2019-01-09T15:32:20-08:00The Center for Women's History and Leadership396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2
