They Made African American take a literacy test, which required reading and understanding constitution. read more
Women and children were the main victims of alcohol-related abuse. To work towards prohibition would mean that the abuse would minimize, if not stop. That is why women's organizations worked for it, to protect themselves and their children from the drunken fathers and husbands. read more
Women's organizations worked for the passage of prohibition because they were morally opposed or practically opposed to the sale of alcohol because of its impact on men in society. With high rates of alcoholism, abuse, and problems associated with alcohol many people supported the prohibition movement and many of these individuals and groups were made up of women. read more