Name: Prohibition Raid
Duration: 54
Description: Police raid a garage in Chicago that contained five hundred and thirty-seven barrels of alcoholic beverage, $30,000 worth of illegal drink.

Police raid a garage in Chicago that contained five hundred and thirty-seven barrels of alcoholic beverage, $30,000 worth of illegal drink.

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Police raid a garage in Chicago that contained   five hundred and thirty-seven barrels of alcoholic beverage, $30,000 worth of illegal drink.

<p>In the Roaring Twenties, a surging economy created an era of mass consumerism, as Jazz-Age flappers flouted Prohibition laws and the Harlem Renaissance redefined arts and culture.</p>


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