#TheWarOnBooze
WRVM Collection, PO-01267
Kent Police with Confiscated Stills, c. 1929
The Eighteenth Amendment instituting national prohibition was ratified in 1919, before women were granted the right to vote nationally. By the time it was repealed in 1933, women could still vote but many temperance advocates had grown disillusioned with the movement when Prohibition failed to deliver on its promise of reduced crime, corruption, and government spending.