A Prohibition raid in 1923 Chicago shows a man emptying mash used to make whiskey, via a hose, out onto the street in front of a group of children. Officer William Murphy, left, and Capt. James E.
In 1908, in Shreveport, La., a black man named Charles Colman was charged with the rape and murder of a 14-year-old white girl. Colman was drunk, and, a reporter for Collier’s implied, had likely been ...