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CBS News The movie Lee Daniels the Butler, which opens Friday, focuses on an African-American servant at the White House. It s bringing new attention to another pioneer, Adm. Stephen Rochon, who ran the presidential household during the Obama and George W. Bush administrations. He is quick to remember the others who paved the way to equality. The Butler is about America in transition an stanley tumbler d an unknown American known only to his family and eight stanley cup American presidents. The movie is inspired by Eugene Allen, a real White House butler who started in 1952 with Harry Truman when he couldn t use white bathrooms in the South. He left in 1986 with Ronald Reagan and was a guest at a state dinner.Oprah on nervous return to acting, reviving OWN, and turning 60Forest Whitaker on Butler role: I wanted to show the dignity of his life Allen s White House service ran parallel to the civil rights movement -- a nation tormented by a new kind of political turmoil. Presidents tried to look away, and then were forced to intervene. In fleeting moments, black servants served another purpose, becoming a window on the chaos.CBS News talked to the movie s writer, Danny Strong, and one of its consultants, Rochon, the nation s first black White House chief usher, who supervised the butlers and all other White House serv stanley cup ice personnel. Strong said, The film is very much inspired by the story of Eugene Allen, but the Gaines family is a fictionalized family, but they re representative of so man Ebjt Stripper Romps Charged To Army Card
9 _9 Q; g0 y; ]' N- m From 1919 to 1933, the United States was a dry nation. It was illegal to make, sell, or consume alcohol. In this collection of images, you ;ll see what daily life was like in a country where police poured millions of gallons of booze into the gutters 鈥?and everyone else surreptitiously drank it in bizarre, hidden places. The Str stanley botella angest Alcoholic Beverages Ever to Touch a Human Tongue Do different kinds of alcohol get you different kinds of drunk Visit The Forbidden Moonshine Caverns of the Appalachians The picture above was taken on March 31, 1932 when Orange County Sheriff deputies were dumping illegal booze in Santa Ana, California, and came from theOrange County Archives. The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Prohibition was instituted after decades of struggle, with the ratification of Amend stanley quencher ment XVIII January 16, 1919 that said: After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. The Volstead Act known as the National Prohibition Act was vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson, but overridden by the House and became law on October 28, 1919. It began on January 17, 1920 and ended on on December 5, 1933, after the ratification of Amendment XXI. via NARA On January 16, 1919, t stanley termosy he 18th Am |
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