Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow : prohibition and the transformation of racial and religious politics in the South /

Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow : prohibition and the transformation of racial and religious politics in the South /

""In Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow, Brendan J. J. Payne reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the South by linking restrictions on alcohol with political preaching and the disfranchisement of Black voters. While both sides invoked Christianity, prohibitionists...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Brendan J. J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]
Series:Making the modern South.
Subjects:
Prohibition > Southern States > History.
Prohibition > Religious aspects > Christianity.
African Americans > Segregation > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Suffrage > Southern States > History.
Minorities > Suffrage > Southern States > History.
Temperance and religion > Southern States > History.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Suffrage > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Tempérance > États-Unis (Sud) > Aspect religieux > Histoire.
African Americans > Segregation.
African Americans > Suffrage.
Minorities > Suffrage.
Prohibition.
Temperance and religion.
Southern States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Bourbon Rule: The South before Prohibition
  • Old-Time Religion: Christian Tradition against Prohibition
  • "Dark and Peculiar": Race, Gender, and Prohibition in the 1880s South
  • Gin Crow: Prohibition in the Jim Crow South
  • Gin Crow Begins: White Drys and Jim Crow
  • "Fidelity to That Liberty": Defeat and Success for Gin Crow
  • Rebels against Rum and Romanism
  • Lily-White Repeal: White Women and the Decline of Gin Crow.