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Part 06: 1920's and Prohibition (Windows Media version)

Lewandowski, Thomas, 1939 - (prod., narr.)

Oakland Community College

Prohibition -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

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Extracts from oral histories of Hamtramck, MI in the Albert J. Zak Memorial Library (Hamtramck), Detroit Public Library (Burton Collection), Hamtramck Historical Collection, Library of Michigan, Macomb County Library, Oakland Community College Libraries.

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Mrs. Iris Page Butler, an African-American, known as "Hamtramck's Angel of Mercy," Health Department nurse from 1918 to 1965 and resident since 1903, Mrs. Margaret McGuire Tenerowicz , wife of Congressman and Mayor Dr. Rudolph Tenerowicz and Stephen A. Majewski, mayor (1926-28), attorney, school board trustee, justice of the peace (1922-26) and Peoples State Bank Board member, share about the difficulties of Prohibition in Hamtramck. Mr. Majewski also served as a justice of the peace during Prohibition and speaks about the difficulties of the job.