Type | Private |
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Active | 1917 | –1922
Religious affiliation | Baptist |
Location | , , United States 33°47′29″N 84°20′56″W / 33.791415°N 84.349023°W |
Lanier University was a short-lived private university, located in today's Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States.[1] It was notable for its connections with the second Ku Klux Klan, which was also based in Atlanta and which owned the university for a time.
Charles Lewis Fowler, a Baptist minister, founded Lanier in 1917. He hoped for financing from Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler but instead got backing from the Georgia Baptist Association. Lanier was to be Georgia's first co-ed Baptist college.[2] The university was named in honor of Sidney Lanier, the "poet of the Confederacy".