Miss Lucy Craft Laney 1854-1933-AAAHC-Richmond Co
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N 33° 28.003 W 081° 58.913
17S E 408760 N 3703460
Located at the corner of Laney-Walker Blvd and Phillips St. in Augusta
Waymark Code: WM78WC
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/20/2009
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Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, during slavery. She graduated in Atlanta University's first class in 1873. Ten years later she founded Haines Normal and Industrial Institute in the lecture room of Christ Presbyterian Church of Augusta. She established the Nurses Training Institute for African-American girls, for the Nurses School of University Hospital; a kindergarten for African Americans in Augusta, one of the first in the South; the first football team from an African-American high school in Georgia, and gave Mary McCloud Bethune her first teaching job. Miss Laney also helped to establish the Augusta NAACP. Her portrait hangs in the Georgia State Capitol, and shis is a distiguished member of the Georgia Women of Achievement housed at Wesleyan College in Macon. Her former home is now and African-American museum.
Type of Marker: Monument
Sponsor: Augusta African-American Historical Committee Sponsors Edward M. McIntyre, Sr.-Founder
Marker #: Not listed
Date: Not listed
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