Wicked Danville liquor and lawlessness in a Southside Virginia City
(2011)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The History Press : Made available through hoopla, 2011
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781625841223 (electronic bk.) MWT11507340, 1625841221 (electronic bk.) 11507340
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prostitution, gambling, moonshine and drugs could all be found behind closed the closed doors of Danville, VA from 1919 to 1933. During Prohibition, the "Law and Order League," of Danville was, of course, "dry," but the city's mayor was personally was known to be "personally wet," and in 1911 citizens were shocked to discover that the police chief was a fugitive from a murder conviction in Georgia. That same period saw lynching, murders and the wreck of the Old '97. HP authors Frankie Bailey and Alice Green will examine the law and disorder of Prohibition era Danville with Wicked Danville: Crime, Justice, and Prohibition in a Southside Virginia City
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