Frances Willard

Lady Liquor: Temperance, suffrage and the matter of strange bedfellows

History post by christenmccurdy on November 5, 2012 - 2:43pm; tagged Carry Nation, divorce, domestic violence, Frances Willard, progressivism, suffrage, temperance, Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Frances Willard looks to right in black and white photo

The pairing of women's suffrage and Prohibition always seemed to me like another quirky historical coupling, an example of the same group of people simultaneously favoring a critical common-sense idea (universal suffrage) and an unbelievably naïve, moralistic solution to society's problems (Prohibition).

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