Mississippi was the last US state to end alcohol prohibition laws in 1966, over 30 years after national prohibition ended. During prohibition, illegal alcohol was sold in speakeasies and blind pigs. Franklin Roosevelt celebrated the end of prohibition with the first legal beer in Washington, DC. Temperance activists rewrote the Bible to remove references to alcohol.
Mississippi was the last U.S. state to repeal its alcohol prohibition laws. It was a legally barren state until 1966, more than 30 years after the 21st Amendment repealed national prohibition.
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During Prohibition, high-class establishments that sold illegal alcohol were called speakeasies, lower-class clubs were called blind pigs or blind tigers. There were more than 30,000 speakeasies in New York City alone.
As soon as Prohibition was repealed in 1933, US President Franklin Roosevelt said, “What America needs now is a drink.” He followed suit and had the first bottle of beer legally brewed in Washington, DC delivered to the White House shortly after midnight on the day Prohibition’s repeal went into effect.
Temperance activists were so convinced that Prohibition would work that they hired writers to rewrite the Bible to remove all references to alcohol. Many dry cities actually sold their jails, because they assumed crime would die when the booze ran out.
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