Progressive-Era Georgia

Progressive-Era Georgia

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.

Applicable Education Standards

  • Turn of the 20th Century (SS5H1)

  • World War I (SS5H2)

  • New South (SS8H7)

  • World War I and Great Depression (SS8H8)

Online Exhibit Possibilities

  • 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

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