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Lucy Craft Laney

Lucy Craft Laney

Web posted January 1, 2000

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This modest, courageous persevering lady -- who established the forerunner of what is now Augusta's Lucy Laney High School -- is only one of three Georgia black citizens honored by having their portraits hung in Georgia's Capitol building. She was a never-ending crusader for bettering Georgia schools, knowing such a reform would ultimately help both blacks and whites.

Indeed, she established several black educational institutions in our area before the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act. ``Miss Lucy's'' accomplishments were made against far greater obstacles than normally face today's educators, because of the 1930s-'50s era of segregation, the deplorable conditions of some black schools and the chronic lack of money for any school renovations or new construction.