temperance crusade

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• Temperance Movements — • Covers the history in Europe, the United States, and Canada Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Temperance Movements     Temperance Movements      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Woman’s Christian Temperance Union — Postkarte von der Erinnerungstafel und der Baptistenkirche in Fredonia, dem Gründungsort der ersten lokalen Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1873). Die Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) war eine Frauenorganisation, die ihren Ursprung… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Woman's Christian Temperance Union — Postkarte von der Erinnerungstafel und der Baptistenkirche in Fredonia, dem Gründungsort der ersten lokalen Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1873). Die Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) war eine Frauenorganisation, die ihren Ursprung… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Woman's Christian Temperance Union —       American organization, founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, in response to the “Woman s Crusade,” a series of temperance demonstrations that swept through New York and much of the Midwest in 1873–74. Annie Wittenmyer (Wittenmyer,… …   Universalium

• moral crusade — A social movement which campaigns around a symbolic or moral issue such as alcohol or pornography. Classic sociological accounts of moral crusades include JosephR. Gusfield s study of the Temperance Movement, Symbolic Crusade (1963), and,… …   Dictionary of sociology

• Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt — Mary Clement Leavitt, temperance crusader Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt (1830–1912) was a divorced Boston schoolteacher who became the first round the world missionary for the Woman s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), of which she was a… …   Wikipedia

• Theobald Mathew —     Theobald Mathew     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Theobald Mathew     Apostle of Temperance, born at Thomastown Castle, near Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland, 10 October, 1790; died at Queenstown, Cork, 8 December, 1856. His father was James Mathew, a… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Prohibition in the United States — Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine underground brewery during the Prohibition era Prohibition in the United States (sometimes referred to as the Noble Experiment)[1] was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and… …   Wikipedia

• Wittenmyer, Annie Turner — ▪ American relief worker and reformer née  Annie Turner   born Aug. 26, 1827, Sandy Springs, Ohio, U.S. died Feb. 2, 1900, Sanatoga [now in Pottstown], Pa.       American relief worker and reformer who helped supply medical aid and dietary… …   Universalium

• WCTU — Postkarte von der Erinnerungstafel und der Baptistenkirche in Fredonia, dem Gründungsort der ersten lokalen Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1873). Die Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) war eine Frauenorganisation, die ihren Ursprung… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• David M. Fahey — (born 1937, at Ossining, New York ) was a history professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.[1] After his retirement in 2006, he continued (through 2010) to teach modern British and world history at Miami on a part time basis. Educated at the …   Wikipedia