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The Brewers of Bigotry
2009,2007
Overview
In May 1921, seventy-seven-year-old Nora Kelly appeared in a New York City courtroom, charged with possessing a one-dollar flask of whiskey. When taken before the judge, the elderly resident of West Seventeenth Street pleaded that she needed the liquor to maintain her health. “I am old and weak and I take a little drop to brace up my strength,” she explained to a city magistrate, “especially early in the day.” Her plea fell on deaf ears. The magistrate sentenced Kelly to five days in jail. Before the proceedings ended, however, Kelly spoke out against Prohibition for what it was doing
