https://reuther.wayne.edu/taxonomy/term/1358 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8334 <p>December 5th is Repeal Day, celebrating the end of Prohibition in the United States in 1933.</p> <p>The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed in 1919, prohibiting the sale, consumption, and manufacturing of alcoholic beverages. The National Prohibition Act (also known as the Volstead Act), defined what constituted an illegal alcoholic beverage <span class='read-more'><a href="https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8334" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span></p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8334#comments Detroit River (Mich. and Ont.) Detroit--politics and government Mason, Philip P. (Philip Parker), 1927- Prohibition--Michigan--Detroit Prohibition--Michigan--Hamtramck--1930-1940 Smuggling--Canada--History. Smuggling--Michigan--Detroit Speakeasies--Michigan--Detroit Subject focus Urban Affairs Mon, 07 Dec 2015 10:32:35 -0500 teller 8334 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8248 <p>A police officer inspects a cable that funneled alcohol underneath the Detroit River from Canada.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8248#comments Detroit River (Mich. and Ont.) Prohibition in Southeastern Michigan Prohibition--Michigan--Detroit Smuggling--Canada--History. Smuggling--Michigan--Detroit Urban Affairs Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:08:21 -0500 eclemens 8248 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8249 <p>A man models a makeshift scuba suit as he sits on a boat in a boathouse. The boathouse housed a cable that funneled alcohol underneath the Detroit River from Canada.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8249#comments Detroit River (Mich. and Ont.) Prohibition in Southeastern Michigan Prohibition--Michigan--Detroit Smuggling--Canada--History. Smuggling--Michigan--Detroit Urban Affairs Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:08:21 -0500 eclemens 8249 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8250 <p>A photograph of a spotlight tower, located at the foot of Dubois Street, used to locate smugglers bringing alcohol across the Detroit River from Canada.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8250#comments Detroit River (Mich. and Ont.) Prohibition in Southeastern Michigan Prohibition--Michigan--Detroit Urban Affairs Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:08:21 -0500 eclemens 8250 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8252 <p>A rum-runner lies in wait on a dock in Sandwich, Ontario for the signal that it is clear to bring alcohol across the Detroit River to a landing plot on 17th Street. Diagram courtesy of a Detroit News Photographer.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8252#comments Detroit River (Mich. and Ont.) Prohibition in Southeastern Michigan Prohibition--Michigan--Detroit Smuggling--Canada--History. Smuggling--Michigan--Detroit Urban Affairs Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:08:21 -0500 eclemens 8252 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8260 <p>Rum-runners bring alcohol across the frozen Detroit River in sleds.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8260#comments Detroit River (Mich. and Ont.) Prohibition in Southeastern Michigan Prohibition--Michigan--Detroit Smuggling--Canada--History. Smuggling--Michigan--Detroit Urban Affairs Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:08:23 -0500 eclemens 8260 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8285 <p>A fleet of U.S. Customs patrol boats heads out into the Detroit River in search of rum-runners and smugglers.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8285#comments Detroit River (Mich. and Ont.) Prohibition in Southeastern Michigan Prohibition--Michigan--Detroit Smuggling--Michigan--Detroit Urban Affairs Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:08:25 -0500 eclemens 8285 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/15003 <p>Dr. Ashley Johnson Bavery explains how undocumented European immigrants coming over the Canadian border to work in the Detroit auto industry in the 1920s and 1930s spurred nativist discourse, influenced government policies toward illegal immigration, and shaped how business and labor unions used and positioned migrant labor. <span class='read-more'><a href="https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/15003" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span></p> Detroit (Mich.) Detroit River (Mich. and Ont.) Immigrants--United States--History Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:57:27 -0500 teller 15003 at https://reuther.wayne.edu