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J. Sidney Peters And Virginia Prohibition, 1916-1920, Hugh Harrington Fraser
J. Sidney Peters And Virginia Prohibition, 1916-1920, Hugh Harrington Fraser
Master's Theses
This study will seek to reveal the reasons for both the success ad failure of Virginia prohibition in its early years. The focus will be on the Department of Prohibition and its controversial, first commissioner, J. Sidney Peters, from 1916 to 1920. These years saw the shift to either grudging or enthusiastic acceptance of. prohibit ion by many of its former foes, and then a shift in increasing numbers to disillusioned hostility, directed mainly against the Commissioner and his Department.
The Rise And Fall Of The Farmers' Alliance Of Virginia, Nancy Byrd Manning
The Rise And Fall Of The Farmers' Alliance Of Virginia, Nancy Byrd Manning
Honors Theses
The purpose of this paper is to trace the quick rise and
equally sudden fall of the Virginia State Farmers' Alliance. Emphasis
was given to the unique socio-economic conditions prevalent in Southern
Virginia during the latter part of the nineteenth century which forced
individual farmers into cooperation, and to the vacillating political
situation which precipitated the death of the Virginia Farmers' Alliance.
The structures and activities of the Alliance received particular attention
because they were extremely important in attracting and maintaining
membership.