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Pbs Learning Media: Lucy Laney

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This video segment from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow addresses the life and impact of Lucy Laney, the founder of the Haines Normal and Industrial School in Augusta, Georgia. Laney was an influential Jim Crow-era educator. She believed it was essential to cultivate the minds of her students in order to develop intellectual leaders for the future, especially black women who could then teach the next generation. (2 min, 6 sec)

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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)