The Progressive Era Georgia option contains newspapers from different regions of the state published during the national Progressive Era (1890-1920). The papers published during this time period carried news about the efforts of the New South movement, the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, the Populist, Suffrage, and Civil Rights movements in Georgia, and the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta.
Turn of the 20th Century (SS5H1)
World War I (SS5H2)
New South (SS8H7)
World War I and Great Depression (SS8H8)
1895 Cotton States and International Exposition
The Atlanta Compromise Speech
1906 Atlanta Race Riots
Tom Watson and Populism in Georgia
The Fight for Suffrage in Progressive Era Georgia
Georgia and WWI
African American Civil Rights Coverage in Georgia’s Newspapers
Americus Times-Recorder, Sumter County (1901-1924 issues, 46 reels, 44K pages, round 1 title)
Athens Republique, Clarke County (1921-1926 ,1 reel, 135 pages, African American)
Atlanta Semi-Weekly/Tri-Weekly Journal, Fulton County (1899-1925, 18 reels, 16K pages)
Atlanta Constitution (Weekly), Fulton County (1887-1903, 6 reels, 3.5K pages)
Gainesville Eagle, Hall County (1879-1925, 4 reels)
Golden Age (Atlanta) (1906-1915, 4 reels)
Griffin Weekly News and Sun, Spalding County (1903-1918, 7 reels)
LaGrange Graphic, Troup County (1899-1925, 6 reels)
Rome Tribune/Tribune-Herald, Floyd County (1893-1918, 34 reels, round 1 title)
Savannah Tribune, Chatham County, (1886-1888, 1 reel, 513 pages, African American)
Thomas E. Watson Newspapers, (1891-1898, 1907-1917, 11 reels)
Southern Ruralist, Atlanta (1897-1924, 11 reels, 17K pages)
Trench and Camp, Augusta (1917-1919, 1 reel, 900 pages)
Waycross Journal-Herald, Ware County (1914-1920, 15 reels, 15K pages, round 1 title)