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Different organizations supplied elite networks, women's legitimacy, legal strategy, propaganda, and electoral coordination.
Pegram credits organized groups—including the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, and the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers—with building constituencies, reframing repeal, pressuring parties, and exploiting the Depression's jobs-and-revenue crisis.
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Myth 7 — Repeal organizations and Depression politics
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