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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 4 records found where LC Subject Heading is Prohibition -- North Carolina -- 19th century
	Letter from James Southgate to Richard Harvey Wright, June 11, 1886 James Southgate asks Richard Harvey Wright for his support of Prohibition in Durham, North Carolina.
	Voters of Durham! rally for your homes, your country, and your God! The Prohibition Committee of Durham, North Carolina, created this broadside in 1886, to support a slate of candidates who vowed to abolish the sale of liquor. J.F. Freeland ran for mayor while Edward J. Parrish, G. W. Watts, C. C. Taylor, W. J. Wyatt, J. S. Carr, T. M. Stephens and J. S. Durham sought positions as town commissioners. The broadside reproduces an exchange in the Durham Recorder, between liquor dealers and church officials over whether a father sold his children's clothing to purchase alcohol.
	From the bar-room to pulpit: lecture delivered by Samuel W. Small at Stokes Hall, Monday evening, May 14th, 1888 A prohibition lecture delivered at Stokes Hall, Durham by Atlanta evangelist Samuel Small. Small recollects his encounters with Sam P. Jones and his personal conversion from drunkard to prohibitionist.
	James Southgate prohibition speech Speech of James Southgate in support of prohibition work.

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