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New Deal

Beer is dumped into the street by police officers on Sep 13, 1929 after police discovered a home-brewed in a home. (NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images)

What Prohibition teaches us about race relations in the U.S.

Prohibition propaganda leveraged anti-black racism, anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiment with stories and images that painted various “others” as debauched, immoral and a threat to wholesome white families wrapped in the American flag