In Atlanta, the celebration of Prohibition's demise was not nearly as spirited as the celebration of its birth nearly 14 years earlier, when, the Atlanta Constitution reported, "The Anti-Saloon League, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and other dry organizations paraded on Peachtree to Five Points, where old John Barleycorn was burned in effigy.
Klein (Del Mar College, Texas) explores both sides of the issue, pitting the Sooner State's middle-class proponents of alcohol consumption with the well- organized efforts of the Oklahoma Anti-Saloon League.
6) When analyzing the relationship between southern Progressivism and the prohibition movement, however, recent studies have tended to overstress the role of the national Anti-Saloon League (ASL) in importing Progressive methods and goals to the region.
Austin Kerr's Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League (New Haven, 1985), but then complains in her bibliography that "book-length studies of the twentieth-century prohibition movement unfortunately tend to focus on the men of the Anti-Saloon League" (p 220).
Representatives from the Anti-Saloon League petitioned the City Council to close the city's bars when citizens celebrated the return of the Washington Volunteers.
Barr, whose previous "Wine Snobbery" garnered praise from The New York Times takes a walk through American history from colonial tippling to the drinking habits of highly effective people (Thomas Jefferson proclaimed "wine from long habit has become indispensable for my health") and discovers that we've undergone a continual attack by anti-immigrant, anti-pleasure forces (typified by the Anti-Saloon League and Women's Christian Temperance) who in the late 19th century were appalled by the influx of wine-drinking southern Europeans, whiskey-sipping Irish and beer-brewing eastern Europeans.
