William+McCoy

William McCoy:

Rum-running was the term used for smuggling illegal alcohol into the United States. It was transported many different ways. Trucks, station wagons, and boats. It was shipped from Mexico, Europe, Canada and the Caribbean. A Captain by the name of William S. McCoy was the leader of most of the rum running; this is where the term “The Real McCoy” came from (Graham).

There were a lot of bootleggers in the twentieth century. Most of them were Eastern European, Italian, Polish, or Irish. One thing about these bootleggers are that they were not very skilled neither were they smart. They got there education from the streets. They were more into selling illegal alcohol and committing violent crimes (Virtual Exhibitions).

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