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Black Tropes and Stereotypes from Jim Crow to Prohibition


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Negative stereotypes surrounding Black people and alcohol were largely manufactured. In this episode, we get to the truth and uncover Black Americans' longstanding relationship with temperance.


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Sources:

The Forgotten History of Black Prohibitionism

Black Temperance Movement 

Historical Overview of Alcohol in the African American Community by Kenneth Christmon

Alcoholism Among Blacks by John E. Franklin, Jr.

Addiction in the African American Community: The Recovery Legacies of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X 

Saloon and Bar Employees in Kentucky, 1870-1920

Blackface: The Sad History of Minstrel Shows

Second Ku Klux Klan and ‘The Birth of a Nation’

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