<em><i>Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars<span> </span></i></em>
Florence historian Lee Freeman notes: "Founded in 1851 in Upstate New York, the Independent Order of Good Templars (IOGT) was an international Evangelical Protestant fraternal order open to men and women dedicated to temperance and while the lodge ostensibly espoused an ideology of universal me...
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| Summary: | Florence historian Lee Freeman notes: "Founded in 1851 in Upstate New York, the Independent Order of Good Templars (IOGT) was an international Evangelical Protestant fraternal order open to men and women dedicated to temperance and while the lodge ostensibly espoused an ideology of universal membership its policy towards blacks was more ambiguous. Florence had a lodge (Sparkling Water Lodge) of Good Templars starting in the 1870s however I'm not certain it had black members or whether there was a separate black lodge." |
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