page_title: Lucy Craft Laney
section_title: Haines Normal and Industrial Institute
hierarchical_section_title: Lucy Craft Laney / Haines Normal and Industrial Institute
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Sewing class at Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, Augusta, Georgia Abstract: African American students sewing in a classroom. Physical description: 1 photographic print. Notes: Exhibited: Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition universelle internationale de 1900), images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for the "American Negro Exhibit".; No. 14.; Title from item.
context_page_description: Lucy Craft Laney was an American educator who in 1883 founded the first school for black children in Augusta, Georgia. She was principal for 50 years of the Haines Institute for Industrial and Normal Education. In 1974 Laney was posthumously selected by Governor Jimmy Carter as one of the first three African Americans honored by having their portraits installed in the Georgia State Capitol. She also was inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement.
context_section_description: Haines Normal and Industrial Institute was a school for African Americans in Augusta, Georgia established by Lucy Craft Laney. It was named in honor of a benefactor who funded its expansion. A historical marker was added to the school site in 2009. It eventually became Lucy Craft Laney High School.
  Laney opened a school with a few students in 1883. She served as the school's principal. Chartered in 1886, it was expanded with a kindergarten and junior college (Lamar School of Nursing). By 1928, it had more than 800 students. The school also served as a community center.
  Photographs of the school were gathered by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for the American Negro Exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition universelle internationale de 1900). In 1928, negotiation were engaged to have Du Bois speak at the school.
  It was supported by the Presbyterian Board of National Missions. A.C. Griggs served as president of the school.
  Sewing, laundry, and printing were taught in a building on the campus. An entity on the school appeared in James T. Haley's Afro-American Encyclopaedia.
caption: Sewing class
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