In fact, evidences of a reaction in favor of the negro soon became apparent.

The late Governor Charles B.Aycock of North Carolina at the beginning of this century won his triumphs on a platform of justice for the negro.
The question of the liquor traffic began to engage the attention of the Southern people very soon after the end of Reconstruction.

The great problem was the sale of liquor in the unpoliced country districts, and especially to negroes.

By special legislative acts forbidding the sale of liquor within a given number of miles of a church or a school a large part of the South was made dry.

Local option acts continued the restrictive work until the sale of liquor outside of the larger incorporated towns became rare.