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Lucy Craft Laney

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Photograph of Lucy Craft Laney, the founder and principal of the Haines Institute in Augusta, Georgia for fifty years (1883-1933). She wears a wide-brimmed hat and a high-collared dress. "Miss Lucy," as she was known, is Georgia's most famous female African American educator.
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  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Educators
  3. African American School Principals
  4. African American Teachers
  5. African American Women
  6. African American Women Civil Rights Workers
  7. African American Women School Principals
  8. African Americans
  9. Augusta
  10. Civil Rights
  11. Civil Rights Workers
  12. Educators
  13. Georgia
  14. Laney, Lucy Craft, 1854 1933
  15. School Principals
  16. Teachers
  17. Women
  18. Women Civil Rights Workers
  19. Women School Principals

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