Presented by Berish Lindsay-Strother Lucy Craft Laney ( )

This project will be completed in four weeks. Students in the 5 th grade will start this project by going on a field trip to the Lucy Laney Museum on Laney Walker Blvd. Students will meet with Mrs. Betts and record the history of Lucy Laney as she guides them through the museum. Students will be required to take notes and post them in a class blog, by the second week of class. Students are to share information about the tour and use Mrs. Betts as a primary source for the final paper. Students will use the NARA worksheet to evaluate photos in presentations

Introduction The founder and principal of the Haines Institute in Augusta for fifty years ( ).Augusta Lucy Craft Laney is Georgia's most famous female African American educator. Lucy Craft Laney was born on April 13, 1854, one of ten children, to Louisa and David Laney during slavery. Her parents, however, were not slaves. David Laney purchased his freedom about twenty years before Laney's birth; he purchased his wife's freedom sometime after their marriage. Laney learned to read and write by the age of four and could translate difficult passages in Latin by the age of twelve, including Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War. She attended Lewis (later Ballard) High School in Macon, which was sponsored by the American Missionary Association.Macon

The Early Years In 1869 Laney joined the first class at Atlanta University, graduating from the Normal Department (teacher's training) in After teaching in Macon, Savannah, Milledgeville, and Augusta for ten years, "Miss Lucy," as she was generally known, began her own school in 1883 in the basement of Christ Presbyterian Church in Augusta. Haines Normal and Industrial InstituteThe school was chartered by the state three years later and named the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute. Originally Laney intended to admit only girls, but several boys appeared and she could not turn them away

. Laney began her lifelong appeal for funding for her school by traveling to a meeting of the General Assembly of the Northern Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis in She addressed the assembly but received only her fare home. She did, however, obtain the confidence of a lifetime benefactor, Mrs. Francine E. H. Haines, for whom her school was named. By 1912 the Haines Institute employed thirty-four teachers, enrolled nine hundred students, and offered a fifth year of college preparatory high school in which Laney herself taught Latin. Haines graduates matriculated at Howard, Fisk, Yale, and other prestigious colleges, where they reflected the confidence and pride that Laney and her staff had instilled in their students.

Mrs. Betts the care taker for the Lucy Laney Museum. Students will record notes from the museum and incorporated them into their final paper. Students may use a map in their project. Students also, must use NARA worksheets to evaluate their sources. ( several worksheets from NARA)several worksheets Click on link to take virtual tour and a map of the area Lucy Craft Laney Museum - Interior

Striking educational achievements Lucy Laney promoted several causes for blacks in Augusta, Georgia: their first kindergarten in the city, first nurses’ training institute for girls, the state’s first football team from a black high school, and school programs and curriculum emphasizing arts and sciences, job training, and community service. Click on link below to see video of present day students who attend Lucy Laney High School watch video

Lucy Laney had the courage and the moral stature to hold young people accountable to the highest standards and to bring out their best selves. She once said, “God has nothing to make men and women out of but boys and girls.”

Laney died on October 23, A pioneering educator, she led the way for many other educational leaders, including Mary McLeod Bethune and Charlotte Hawkins Brown. Click on the link below to view a Teacher Video that lists other famous African Americans that laid the foundations for other women to succeed trinigal911

Lucy Laney is buried on the grounds of the school that now bears her name, on a major Augusta boulevard that also bears her name. Her portrait hangs in the Georgia State Capitol. She is a permanent example to young people of the value of vision, dedication, and commitment to service.

Before beginning this project students will use a KWL chart and find out how much information they know. At the end of this project students will have taken a tour of the Lucy Laney museum. Use the SEA worksheet to record their ideas and thoughts about the museum experience. Students will view a video of other African Women and will be required to incorporate their primary sources into a 5-6 page paper about contributions made by African American women.

References americanart.si.edu/education/johnson/laney.html