10 Outrageous Claims Made By The Temperance Movement
In the mid-1800s, the Temperance movement was gaining strength and momentum in the United States. The Anti-Saloon League, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and the Ku Klux Klan were all outspoken driving forces behind lobbying for outlawing the sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol. They cited its tendency to ruin families and push people to commit violent acts as reason for their stance. As if that wasn’t enough, they came up with some pretty outrageous and sometimes downright bizarre claims for just why alcohol needed to be outlawed.
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Springfield’s Hicklin family provided two of Sangamon County’s earliest successful African American politicians, as well as leadership in the local civil rights movement.
Hezkiah Hicklin was the first African-American to hold public office in Sangamon County, serving one term on the county Board of Supervisors. Newspaper records are incomplete, but Hicklin was casting votes as an assistant supervisor from Springfield’s First Ward by Aug. 28, 1874. It’s not clear when he took or left office, or even whether he was elected or appointed to the board.
The position of assistant supervisor may have been a political trade-off. Black Republicans had supported Hicklin as a candidate for First Ward alderman in 1873.
The Mana Wahine Kaupapa Inquiry hearings will begin this week, investigating claims regarding the specific tiriti violations of the crown that have led to injustice against wahine Māori across social, physical, spiritual, economic, political and cultural dimensions. It has been a long time coming, having first been filed in 1993 and led out by the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and then initiated as an inquiry in 2018. While it can be said that.
In 2019, the Fredonia Shakespeare Club lost a beloved member with the passing of Patricia McQuiston.
Throughout her 50 years with the club, McQuiston offered her talents and skills, and she left behind an array of papers and notes. These included a play which McQuiston wrote and directed in 1985, commemorating the club’s first 100 years. McQuiston’s research was based on extensive review of articles published in 1885-86, in the “Fredonia Censor.”
Current club members decided to honor McQuiston (and relieve “COVID-weariness”) by presenting the play, under the direction of club member Joyce Haines. The virtual presentation took place on January 21.
The play revolves around two original members of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club (“Mrs. Green” and “Miss Blair”), as they discuss news items found in the “Censor,” pertaining to other club members and village events. These characters were energetically portrayed by Mary Croxton and Dr. Irene Strychalski, garbe