REPORTING OFFICER'S NARRATIVE (Brief narrative of the facts surrounding the offense and the arrest.) At 6:15 a.m., Dispatch received a 911 call regarding the discovery of a dead body at the Yoknapatawpha County Convention Center at 1710 Belk Boulevard.
Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-1132. Women in the Progressive Era achieved many important reforms. Perhaps their most concrete victory was the passage of the 19th Amendment, enfranchising women. Yet, reform women also began to redefine the role of the federal government in American society.
The Progressive era was born from post-Civil War reform movements like abolition, temperance, and women's suffrage. Appearing around 1890, the movement was inspired by reformers who believed that effort, logic, and efficiency could, in time, cure most of society's ills.