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Anti-Saloon League

The Anti-Saloon Leauge was an organization that worked closely with other temperance movements with the goal of national prohibition through consitutional amendments. They ran the American Issue Publishing Company to produce and distribute temperance literature in the form of fliers, magazines, pamphlets and books warning about the effects of alcoholism.

Westerville Public Library maintains the Anti-Saloon Leauge Museum which contains many primary source documents.

Committee of Fifty

The Committee of Fifty for the Investigation of the Liquor Problem was formed to study the scientific temperance instruction. Many states mandated anti-alcohol education, but instruction endorsed by the Women's Christian Temperance Unit was not scientific. The Committee of Fifty was founded by a group of scholars to gather objective facts about alcohol. They conducted several studies on the liquor problem, it's economic effects, and substitutions for saloons.

The Liquor Problem

Substitutions for the Saloon

Internal Revenue Service - Prohibition Unit

The Prohibition Unit was established to enforce prohibition in 1920. It was first part of the Internal Revenue Service before becoming an independent entity in the Department of Treasury.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has a copy of the  Bureau of Prohibition Hearings .