The progressive era took 20 years to correct abuses of the Gilded Age. The New Deal struggled for a decade to overcome the Great Depression, and the expansion of economic justice lasted through the 1960s.
Stigma (botany) The stigma (plural: stigmata) is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
A stigma is a powerful negative social label that radically changes a person's self-concept and social identity. Stigmas are deepened by retrospective labeling, the interpretation of someone's past consistent with present deviance.