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Prohibition: Al Capone, Speakeasies & the Alcohol Ban | Sleep Story
Drift off to the complete history of Prohibition — one of America's boldest and most disastrous social experiments. When the 18th Amendment banned the production and sale of alcohol in 1920, it didn't stop drinking. Instead, it gave birth to organized crime, speakeasies, bootleggers, and a cultural revolution.
Covered: The temperance movement and Anti-Saloon League, the passage of the 18th Amendment and Volstead Act, the rise of bootlegging and rumrunning, Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit, speakeasy culture and jazz, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the Repeal movement, and the 21st…
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