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10604
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Recent rejection of liquor by the drink in towns across North Carolina is a reminder of our state's 150 year history supporting prohibition. The state's first temperance society was founded in Guilford County in 1822. Four years later, Orange County Presbyterians formed the Society for the Suppression of Intemperance. The Sons of Temperance, a national fraternal order, launched a Raleigh chapter in 1842, but met with limited success until an 1851 membership drive featuring temperance lecturer Philip S. White. By year's end, North Carolina boasted 12,000 members in 281 chapters.
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10066
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The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was organized in Greensboro, on November 27, 1883, by Frances E. Willard, the president of the National WCTU at that time. The organization's basic objectives were total abstinence for the individual and total abolition of the liquor trade. Rogers discusses the work of the organization and lists the state presidents from 1883 to 1945.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 3 Issue 4, Aug 1945,
p22-23, bibl
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