The Progressive Era was an African American newspaper published in Athens, Georgia . It was established in 1899. ^[1] The Library of Congress has a collection of the paper on microfilm . ^[1] 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 survived. ^[2]

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