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Lanier University, named after "poet of the Confederacy" Sidney Lanier, was a short-lived university in today's Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. 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.

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  • Lanier University, named after "poet of the Confederacy" Sidney Lanier, was a short-lived university in today's Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. 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. Architect A. Ten Eyck Brown made architectural plans for the new campus in Morningside on a crescent-shaped strip of land (see illustration). At the head of this strip, at University Drive and Spring Valley Lane, would stand a replica of the Custis-Lee Mansion in Arlington, Virginia. This was built and named Arlington Hall. The University Park subdivision was developed around the university in 1921, and University Drive is also a reminder of that time. Among its faculty was William Joseph Simmons, founder and leader of the second Ku Klux Klan. Simmons was a "professor of southern history" at Lanier. Financial problems plagued the school; in 1921, the school was sold to the Ku Klux Klan, which owned it for a year, with Nathan Bedford Forrest II (grandson of the Confederate general by the same name) as secretary and business manager. "The central idea involved in this proposition of the operation of Lanier University by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is to do what few universities are doing in this country, and that Is to teach pure Americanism," Forrest told The New York Times. "Most of our large universities now are turning out Socialists, cynics and atheists." Forrest predicted the Klan-run Lanier would enroll 1,000 to 2,000 students within a year. Instead, it failed in less time than that, closing on September 1, 1922. It was sold that October. The property became a synagogue. In 1949 Congregation Shearith Israel, then in Summerhill, bought the property from the estate of Walter E. King. During this time Summerhill was deteriorating due to the construction of the Downtown Connector freeway, and many Jews were moving from there to Morningside, where many would later join to fight the construction of the I-485 freeway through Morningside. Since 2009, Arlington Hall has been occupied by the Canterbury School, while the synagogue remains in buildings behind it to the east. (en)
  • De Lanier-universiteit (Engels: Lanier University), vernoemd naar de dichter Sidney Lanier, was een universiteit in de -buurt in Atlanta in de Amerikaanse staat Georgia. De universiteit heeft korstondig bestaan, van 1917 tot 1922. Van 1921 tot 1922 werd de universiteit bestuurd door de Ku Klux Klan. Charles Lewis Fowler, een voormalige Baptistische predikant, stichtte de Lanier-universiteit in 1917. Oorspronkelijk hoopte hij op financiering van de Coca-Cola-magnaat , maar in plaats daarvan ontving hij financiële steun van de Georgia Baptist Association. De Lanier-universiteit zou de allereerste Baptistische school in Georgia worden die zowel mannen als vrouwen aannam. De architect ontwierp een nieuwe campus in Morningside gelegen op een maanvormige strook land. Aan het begin van deze strook land, gelegen aan de University Drive en de Spring Valley Lane, zou een replica van het Custis-Lee landhuis in Arlington, Virginia, komen. Nadat dit gebouw werd afgeleverd werd het de Arlington Hall gedoopt. De universiteit verkeerde continu in financieel zwaar weer; dit had als gevolg dat de universiteit in 1921 werd verkocht aan de Ku Klux Klan. Deze laatstgenoemde organisatie bestierde de universiteit voor iets minder dan een jaar. De universiteit werd tijdens deze periode geleid door , de kleinzoon van gelijknamige generaal. De universiteit sloot voorgoed op 1 september 1922. Al de bij de universiteit horende onroerende goederen werden in oktober van datzelfde jaar verkocht. In 1949 kocht de Shearith Israel-congregatie, toentertijd nog gevestigd in de Summerhill-wijk van Atlanta, de voormalige universiteit van Walter E. King. De universiteit werd omgevormd tot een synagoge. De levensomstandigheden in de Summerhill-wijk waren omstreeks deze tijd verslechterd vanwege de aanleg van een grote verbindingsweg dwars door de wijk, en velen van de in de wijk wonende Joden verhuisden naar Morningside. Vanaf 2009 is de Canterbury School gevestigd in de Arlington Hall. De synagoge is gevestigd in de achtergelegen gebouwen, meer naar het oosten. (nl)
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  • Lanier University, named after "poet of the Confederacy" Sidney Lanier, was a short-lived university in today's Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. 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. (en)
  • De Lanier-universiteit (Engels: Lanier University), vernoemd naar de dichter Sidney Lanier, was een universiteit in de -buurt in Atlanta in de Amerikaanse staat Georgia. De universiteit heeft korstondig bestaan, van 1917 tot 1922. Van 1921 tot 1922 werd de universiteit bestuurd door de Ku Klux Klan. Vanaf 2009 is de Canterbury School gevestigd in de Arlington Hall. De synagoge is gevestigd in de achtergelegen gebouwen, meer naar het oosten. (nl)
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