April 13, 1854: Lucy Craft Laney

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Suggested Readings

Robin Kadison Berson, Marching to a Different Drummer: Unrecognized Heroes of American History (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994), 186-94.

Asa C. Griggs, "Notes: Lucy Craft Laney," Journal of Negro History 19 (January 1934): 97-102.

Mary M. Marshall, "'Tell Them We Are Rising!' Black Intellectuals and Lucy Craft Laney in Post Civil War Augusta, " (Ph.D. diss., Drew University, 1998).

Lucy Lilian Notestein, Nobody Knows The Troubles I See (Washington, D.C.: Manuscript Divisions, Library of Congress, n.d.), 1-16.

Jennifer Lund Smith, "Lucy Craft Laney and : Lighting Fires of Knowledge," in Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 1., ed. Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009).

Gloria Taylor Williams-Way, "Lucy Craft Laney, 'The Mother of the Children of the People': Educator, Reformer, Social Activist" (Ph.D. diss., University of South Carolina, 1998).

“Lucy Craft Laney (1854-1933).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-820&sug=y

Lucy Craft Laney Museum: http://www.lucycraftlaneymuseum.com/

Georgia Women of Achievement: http://www.georgiawomen.org/2010/10/laney-lucy-craft/

Haines Normal and Industrial Institute Marker, Erected by Georgia Historical Society: http://georgiahistory.com/markers/3212

Lucy Craft Laney Marker, Erected by Georgia Historical Society: http://georgiahistory.com/markers/108

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Atlanta University University of Massachusetts Courtesy of Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Massachusetts, mums312-b001-i197-001

Lucy Craft Laney Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Courtesy of the Lucy Craft Laney Black History Museum of Black History

Extempo Club of Fisk University Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-91994

Haines Institute Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Courtesy of the Lucy Craft Laney Black History Museum of Black History

Francine Haines Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Courtesy of the Lucy Craft Laney Black History Museum of Black History

Haines Historical Marker Historical Marker Database Courtesy of Mike Stroud, HMdb

Haines Normal and Industrial Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Courtesy of the Lucy Craft Laney Institute Black History Museum of Black History

Haines Normal and Industrial Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Courtesy of the Lucy Craft Laney Institute Black History Museum of Black History

Haines Normal and Industrial Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints & Institute Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-132447

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April 13, 1854: Lucy Craft Laney Born Image Credits

Haines Normal and Industrial Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints & Institute Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-132448

Haines Normal and Industrial Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Courtesy of the Lucy Craft Laney Institute Black History Museum of Black History

Haines Normal and Industrial Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints & Institute Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-132449

Haines Normal and Industrial Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints & Institute Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-115956

Howard University Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-97168

Langston Hughes Library of Congress Library of Congress, Gordon Parks, 1912-2006, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USW3-033841-C

Lt. Beatrice Baker Lamar School of Nursing Courtesy of the Lamar School of Nursing

Lucy Craft Laney The Georgia Archives Courtesy of The Georgia Archives, Georgia Capitol Museum Collection, 1992.23.0050

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April 13, 1854: Lucy Craft Laney Born Image Credits

Lucy Craft Laney Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Courtesy of the Lucy Craft Laney Black History Museum of Black History

Lucy Craft Laney Historical Marker Database Courtesy of Mike Stroud, HMdb.org

Bethune-Cookman College Library of Congress Library of Congress, Gordon Parks, 1912-2006, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USW3-014821-E

Mary McLeod Bethune Library of Congress Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten,1880-1964, Prints & Photographs Collection, LC-USZ62-128514

Yale University Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-D4-39330

Fisk University Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-112768

Haines Normal and Industrial Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Courtesy of the Lucy Craft Laney Institute Black History Museum of Black History

Lamar School of Nursing Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Courtesy of the Lucy Craft Laney Black History Museum of Black History

WEB Du Bois University of Massachusetts Courtesy of Special Collections University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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April 13, 1854: Lucy Craft Laney Born Image Credits

Libraries, mums312-0452

Yale University Library of Congress Library of Congress, Ned Goode, Photographer, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS CONN,5-NEWHA,6B--1

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