Why North Carolina voted dry
By: by Frances Renfrow Doak ; read before a convention of the United Dry Forces in Greensboro, January 16, 1934
Contributors: United Dry Forces of North Carolina; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Prohibition; Temperance; Liquor laws; United Dry Forces of North Carolina
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: Describes how various groups (Anti-Saloon League, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, church and political leaders as well as other groups) united in a coalition called the United Dry Forces of North Carolina to persuade voters of the state of North Carolina who believed the state should be dry instead of wet to get out and vote for candidates that would keep the state dry.  Outlines the actions taken to succeed in their task and their vow to continue to work together for the cause without taking political or denominational sides to issues. Includes a lists of county chairman and managers, nominees for candidates to the convention and the Central Committee United Dry Forces of North Carolina members.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed September 23, 2002)

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

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Transcribed from: Why North Carolina voted dry / by Frances Renfrow Doak ; read before a convention of the United Dry Forces in Greensboro, January 16, 1934. Raleigh, N.C. : Capital Print Co., 1934. 26 p. ; 23 cm.

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