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Using archival film and photographs and interviews with residents and scholars; this film examines the effect of prohibition on Detroit and the Detroit River area. Rumrunning, speakeasies, the Charleston, and bootlegging are covered. Starting with the temperence movement to the 18th amendment (1920) and its repeal in 1933, this film relates the views of Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company in relation to prohibition and also chronicles the control of the bootleg market from the small-time operator to the Syndicates (the Purple Gang in Detroit) to the Sicilian Black Hands

Taal
Engels
Serie
The American experience

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Uitgever
WGBH Boston Video, [Boston]
Verschenen
2005
Speelduur
0:58:00
Aantekening
a Thomas Lennon Production for The American Experience
Series host, David McCullough; interviews with: Martin Hayden, Kenneth White, Gertrude Linscott, Seymour Fabrick, "Red" Cole, Sidney Fine, Lois Quig, Esther Earl, Don Gardner, Dennis Renaud, George Gayton, Clayton Riopelle, Theresa Plotzke, Mary Attaman, Maxie Silk
Videoversie van televisieprogramma "The American experience", 1989

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