Old City Cemetery Committee Saloons & Temperance Tour

1000 Broadway,Sacramento CA 95818

25 March, 2023

Description

Sacramento was “wet” enough for Mark Twain to name us the “City of Saloons”, but there was always a determined opposition in the Temperance movement, who eventually were successful with Prohibition. Many women were active at a management level, as a precursor to, or simultaneously with, similar involvement in Suffrage and other progressive causes. Learn about cocktails, barroom brawls, the free lunch, and why saloons had separate women's entrances. And how women and men fought to curb the saloon industry’s influence over their community.