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The Progressive Era

African American newspaper from Athens, Georgia, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ48968265 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Progressive Era was an African American newspaper published in Athens, Georgia. It was first published on February 21, 1899 and circulated for nearly 20 years. The Library of Congress has a collection of the paper on microfilm. It was purchased by Monroe Morton in 1914 from W. D. Johnson, A. M. E. Bishop, and W. H. Harris, a dentist whose office was in the Morton Building. Morton served as editor and publisher. No known editions from his tenure have been preserved, and only a single issue of the paper (vol. 1, no. 14, September 2, 1899) is known to have survived to the present.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Progressive Era” as african American newspaper from Athens, Georgia, USA. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1899, 1914—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1899. The account is most persuasive where Progressive, African and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as african American newspaper from Athens, Georgia, USA. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48968265. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1899 and 1914.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Progressive Era” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.