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Position:Home>History> Can anyone tell me something about Carrie Nation?Question: Can anyone tell me something about Carrie Nation!? Can anyone give me any info on Carrie Nation, not like about her biography and life but about the things she stood for and maybe issues she challenged!? I know she challenged alcohol but what kind of things did she do to challenge the cause and maybe any groups that she lead to make any progress toward the issues she was for/against!? Any info like that would be much appreciated!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Carrie Nation was a prominent prohibitionist!. she made speeches and would even destroy saloons!. In Carrie's time a woman who was married to a drinker had limited options in terms or making a living, being divorced, or preventing abuse of herself or her children!. Those who opposed alcohol saw it as the only way to help woman and children avoid poverty and abuse!. Www@QuestionHome@Com In 1892, Carrie Nation, as co-founder of the local branch of the Women's Christian Temperence Union, launched a powerful emotional campaign which closed down all the town's illicit saloons!. Her campaign spread across the state, her tactics included weeping, hymn-singing, and smashing bottles and furniture with an axe, which she called 'the hatchetation of joints'!. She was frequently arrested but extended her activities to New York, Washington, San Francisco, Pittsburg, and other large cities, financing her missions by lecturing and selling souvenir hatchets!. In 'America's Women' it says: Carrie Nation first drew national attention in 1900 when she walked into the rather elegant bar of the Hotel Carey in Witchita, Kansas, and threw two stones at a huge nude painting of Cleopatra at the BAth, ripping the canvas!. She shattered a $15,000 mirror, drove the patrons from teh room with her cane, and broke all the bottles and glasses on the bar!. She was dragged away, shouting at her jailers, "You put me in here a cub, but I will go out a roaring lion and make all hell howl" Her second hsuband left her when she became a celebrity, and she embarked on a career of lecturing, smashing, and publishing magazines like The Hatchet and The Smasher's Mail!. She also inspired immitators like May Sheriff, who organized teh 'Flying Squadron of Jesus' fifty women who raided bars along the Oklahoma border!. Www@QuestionHome@Com There's a big cemetery monument with her name in the city cemetery at Belton, MO!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |